SABINE RIVER AUTHORITY OF TEXAS v. McNATT

No. A-7956.

342 S.W.2d 741 (1961)

SABINE RIVER AUTHORITY OF TEXAS, Petitioner, v. J. P. McNATT et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

February 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. P. Kucera, City Atty., Dallas, N. Alex Bickley, 1st Asst., Dallas, Byron Tinsley, Lutcher Simmons, Orange, Allen Clark, Greenville, for petitioner.

G. C. Harris, Greenville, H. B. Harrison, Paris, for J. P. McNatt and intervenor appellees T. C. Bell and others.

O. P. McWhirter, and B. F. Lowrie, Greenville, for intervenor-appellees T. A. Chandler and others.


STEAKLEY, Justice.

Respondents by suit and pleas of intervention sought to enjoin Petitioner from exercising eminent domain proceedings in the manner and as authorized by Article 7880-126, Vernon's Ann.Civ.Stats., as amended by the 42nd Legislature in 1931. Constitutionality of the statute was attacked on various grounds, and error was alleged in certain proceedings of Petitioner.

The trial court declared the statute "void and unconstitutional for the reasons...

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