City of Kennedale v. City of Arlington

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This suit was brought by the City of Kennedale against the City of Arlington, seeking a declaratory judgment declaring the rights of those parties to certain lands located within the overlapping extraterritorial jurisdiction of both of those cities as such extraterritorial jurisdiction was created and defined by Art. 970a, V.A.C.S.

As a basis for its claims Kennedale contended that by reason of an apportionment agreement that it had made with the City of Fort Worth involving this same land that it had succeeded to all or some of the City of Fort Worth’s…