HATTEN v. CITY OF HOUSTON

No. 14255.

373 S.W.2d 525 (1963)

G. R. HATTEN et al., Appellants, v. The CITY OF HOUSTON, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd M. Lunsford, South Houston, and Louis W. Graves, Jr., James T. Russell, and Graves, Cottingham & Russell, Houston, for appellants G. R. Hatten, James K. Freeman, Russell Kiehn and W. Joe Norris.

David Crews, Conroe, and Sam Freas, Livingston, for appellants M. L. & Lamar Walker.

R. H. Burks, City Atty., and G. Gordon Whitman, Senior Asst., Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Victor W. Bouldin, Houston, for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a special statutory proceeding instituted by the City of Houston, Texas, under the provisions of Article 717m, Vernon's Ann.Tex.St., seeking a declaratory judgment establishing the validity of $14,000,000.00 in Water System Revenue Bonds and the proceedings had in connection with the issuance thereof. The proceeding is one in rem and citation is by publication.

By order of the trial court an earlier suit seeking to enjoin the issuance...

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