RIO GRANDE VALLEY GAS v. CITY OF EDINBURG

No. 13-98-630-CV.

59 S.W.3d 199 (2000)

RIO GRANDE VALLEY GAS CO., et al., Appellants, v. The CITY OF EDINBURG, Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

December 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christina Carlson Dodds, Austin, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, Cynthia Keely Timms, Dallas, Sara Murray, Soules & Wallace, San Antonio, Daniel Bishop, Watson, Bishop, London & Galow, Austin, Jerry K. Clements, Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell, Paul D. Andrews, Soules & Wallace, San Antonio, E. Lee Parsley, Locke Liddell & Sapp, Austin, Luther H. Soules, Iii, Soules & Wallace, San Antonio, Reagan Wm. Simpson, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, for appellants.

David C. Garza, Garza & Garza, Brownsville, Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Hogan, Dubose & Townsend, Benjamin L. Hall, III, Elizabeth B. Hawkins, O'Quinn & Laminack, Robert M. Roach, Cook, Roach & Lawless, Houston, Dana Livingston Cobb, Cook, Roach & Lawless, Austin, J.A. `Tony' Canales, Canales & Simonson, P.C., Corpus Christi, Russell S. Post, Hogan, Dubuse & Townsend, Houston, for appellee.

Before Justices HINOJOSA, CHAVEZ and RODRIGUEZ.


OPINION

CHAVEZ, Justice.

Appellants1 supplied natural gas to commercial and residential customers within the city of Edinburg. Some of that gas was sold and distributed according to the terms of a 1985 franchise granted by the city for the right to sell and distribute natural gas within the city in exchange for a 4% fee to be charged on all natural gas sales. In 1996 the city sued appellants...

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