CITY OF BALCH SPRINGS, TEX. v. LUCAS

No. 05-02-01126-CV.

101 S.W.3d 116 (2002)

CITY OF BALCH SPRINGS, TEXAS, Appellant, v. The George F. LUCAS, Irrevocable Family Trust, Carolyn L. Bass, Trustee, Richard W. Caudle, United Investment Trust, Go Crete, Hanson Aggregates Central, Inc., Texas Industries, Inc., Lucas Bass Holdings, Ltd., David Paulson and Barbara Paulson, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

December 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Berman, Nichols Jackson Dillard & Smith, LLP, Dallas, for Appellant.

Arthur J. Anderson, Winstead Sechrest & Minick, P.C., Dallas, for Appellee.

Before Justices MOSELEY, LANG, and LAGARDE.


OPINION

Opinion by Justice LANG.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the City of Balch Springs (hereinafter "City") of the trial court's denial of its plea to the jurisdiction and entry of a temporary injunction prohibiting it from annexing, by ordinance, certain property within the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction. In four issues on appeal, the City contends that it was acting within the lawful exercise of its legislative authority in pursuing the annexation...

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