CITY OF HOUSTON v. HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC.

No. 15287.

428 S.W.2d 706 (1968)

CITY OF HOUSTON, Texas, et al., Appellants, v. HOUSTON ENDOWMENT, INC., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. A. Olson, City Atty., W. Lawrence Cook, Jr., Senior Asst. City Atty., Houston, for appellants.

Liddell, Dawson, Sapp & Zivley, Willis Witt, John C. Nabors, Houston, for appellee.


PEDEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the granting of an order temporarily enjoining the City of Houston, its mayor, acting tax assessor-collector and the members of its city council, from passing on final reading Ordinance 67-2146, which would annex 220 acres of unimproved land owned by Houston Endowment. The tract in question lies within a strip of land that extended 20 air miles down the Houston Ship Channel. This long strip was specially annexed by Houston in...

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