HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DIST. v. ADAM

No. 01-98-00705-CV.

988 S.W.2d 423 (1999)

HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, Texas Department of Transportation, and Brazoria Drainage District No. 4, Appellants, v. Doyle ADAM, Wanda Adam, Patricia Ann Adams, Fernando R. Aguilar, Carolyn S. Aguilar, Charles Aiken, Julieann Aiken, Ronald E. Alford, Joann Alford, Kenneth Allen, Monzelle Allen, Antonio Almaguer, Linda Almaguer, Jose A. Alvarez, Derward L. Amacker, Donna R. Amacker, Rodolfo Aparicio, Dianna Aparicio, James B. Armstrong, Brenda Armstrong, Herbert B. Barrier, Jr., Bobbye J. Barrier, James E. Bell, Kay Bouland, Craig E. Boegler, Judy F. Boegler, Richard L. Bostwick, Sr., Bobbie Bostwick, Bobby L. Branch, James T. Brose, Rita A. Brose, John T. Brown, Jr., Linda R. Brown, Archie V. Buchman, Jr., Margit Buchman, William S. Cargill, Billie F. Cargill, Jose J. Cavazos, Rosemary Cavazos, Francisco DeLeon, Sr., Cynthia DeLeon, Evelyn Dellolio, James L. Dugan, David L. Egan, Cynthia L. Egan, Glen E. Einkauf, Gina K. Einkauf, Walter Fassy, Vicki L. Fassy, Robert T. Fassy, Jennifer Fassy, David Fogarty, Maria Fogarty, Richard M. Frazier, Geraldine H. Frazier, John E. Freeman, Lew D. French, Jr., Dorothy Frenzel, Bruce H. Fundling, Mary R. Fundling, Ira D. Gilmore, Carolyn B. Gilmore, Carl D. Girod, Deborah Girod, George W. Graham, Donna J. Roe Graham, R.C. Grimes, Edit Grimes, Bruce Hall, Stella Hall, Rhea D. Hambright, Elizabeth McDonald, Roy R. Hamilton, Carolyn A. Hamilton, Les Hansen, Cathy Hansen, Ana Marie Harris, Gerald Harris, Robert M. Herbert, Jr., Debby Herbert, Ingrid Hilliard, James Hilliard, Maxine Hilton, William G. Hinson, Violet Richardson, William E. Hornback, Willie Mae Hornback, David E. Hunt, Loretta B. Hunt, Fenton Hutchison, Mary Joe Einkauf, Randy T. Jeffery, Mark Jones, Renee Jones, Aaron Karolinski, Sheryl Karolinski, Linda Taylor Kennedy, Wilburn Koester, E.J. Langley, Gloria M. Langley, Aaron Laurence, Denise Laurence, Larry Linares, Laura Linares, Martha Lindley, Robert J. Lira, Katherine E. Lira, Charles A. Llewellyn, Dorothy J. Llewellyn, Elizabeth F. Long, Milton I. Long, Juan Longoria, Lydia Longoria, Juan B. Lopez, Longinos M. Lopez, Phyllis D. Lopez, Richard Massiatte, Malena Massiatte, Martin L. Maulden, Janice M. Maulden, Manley R. May, Jodi L. May, Willie M. Mayfield, Stephen L. McCown, Wallace H. McDaniel, Leah R. McDaniel, Burl D. McMahan, John McNally, Joy McNally, Alfred G. Medina, Alicia G. Medina, Beulah Medlin, Dale Medlin, Margaret C. Meraz, Raymond B. Meraz, Enemoria P. Meraz, Wayne Miller, Charla Miller, Joe Milstead, Evangelina Milstead, Clifford C. Moffett, Gwen E. Moffett, Henry H. Morgan, Judith A. Morgan, Grace A. Moye, Jack Musselman, Nancy Musselman, Frederick A. Noel, Deborah Noel, Ima Burnia Oller, Charles Ortiz, Sharla Ortiz, James D. Osborne, Orlando A. Perea, Jr., Tina Perea, Rosa Pina, Bobbie E. Pond, Judy F. Pond, James G. Porter, Jr., Douglas C. Pounds, Mary L. Pounds, Billie Poynter, Vernon L. Roth, Rose Roth, Bendel S. Rushing, Jr., Bridget C. Rushing, Phillip W. Rutter, Terri A. Rutter, Michael J. Schattel, Dorothy J. Schattel, Henry Schroeder, Joyce Schroeder, Debra A. Schroeder, Edgar E. Sears, Lois J. Sears, Jerry P. Segel, Betty Segel, Rudolph V. Sepolio, Sr., Amalia C. Sepolio, James R. Sneed, Patricia A. Sneed, James G. Stack, Barbara J. Stack, Glen S. Stanford, Mary M. Stanford, Ronald E. Stasky, Dorothy Stasky, Fannie Jo Money-Stickland, Joe E. Toetter, Maria M. Toetter, Jack F. Tyler, Nanette Tyler, Nita Upton, Scott G. Vaughan, Jr., Helen Vaughan, Samuel C. Vernon, Virginia Vernon, Paul A. Walker, John E. Walston, Pamela J. Walston, Cheryl White, Devin White, Deborah White, Jerry M. Wilburn, Shirley M. Wilburn, Marilee Williams, Peggy L. Willis, Reginald D. Wood, Gary D. Wood, Durinda S. Wood, James C. Woodford, Susan J. Similer, William R. Wright, Carolyn J. Wright, Christine York, Nathan Zainfeld, E.D. Zamorsky, Shirley Zamorsky, Linda Zapalac, and Robert Zavalla, Appellees.

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

March 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Newsom, Houston, Benjamin H. Best, II, Pearland, George Bashier Murr, Sandra D. Hachem, Patricia McGarvey Rosendahl, Mario L. Vasquez, Houston, Randall M. Ward, Susan Desmarais Bonnen, Austin, Jay S. Siskind, Dennis J. Albright, Chris E. Ryman, Robert E. Meadows, James Riley, Houston, for Appellants.

Dennis C. Reich, Benton Musslewhite, Elaine Watson, Newton Schwartz, Houston, for Appellees.

Panel consists of Justices COHEN, HEDGES, and TAFT.


OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

TIM TAFT, Justice.

Appellants, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD), Texas Department of Transportation (TDT), and Brazoria Drainage District Number 4 (BDD4), have filed motions for rehearing. After reviewing the motions, we withdraw the opinion we issued on November 19, 1998, and issued the following opinion in its place.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order overruling appellants' pleas to the jurisdiction...

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