Supreme Court of Texas

Plaintiff's suit for compensation for an alleged taking is dismissed where any damages resulting from leaving unimproved, raw land in its natural state while raising or lowering an adjacent roadbed in hilly terrain are community in nature.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2004
• Decided 08/27/2004
• Published 08/27/2004

Judges

• Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terry Topham, Davidson & Troilo, San Antonio, for petitioner., Susan Desmarais Bonnen, Greg Abbott, Barry Ross McBee, Edward D. Burbach, Grady Click, Office of Atty. General, Austin, for amicus curiae., Mary Belan Doggett, Lineharger Goggan Pena & Sampson, San Antonio, for other.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Anderson, Steven R. Sampson and Sumer IreneCreel Shelton, Barron Adler & Anderson, L.L.P., Austin, for respondent.