Supreme Court of Texas

Plaintiff's suit for nuisance, filed after the conditions existed for many years, is dismissed as untimely where the nuisance is permanent and the claim accrues when injury first occurs or is discovered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2004
• Published 10/01/2004

Judges

• Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Dixon Walker, Michael P. Cash, Cash Allen L.L.P., James Edward Smith, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P., Amy Douthitt Maddux, Michael L. Brem, F. Walter Conrad Jr., and Karlene D. Poll, Baker Botts LLP, William Howard Farrell, Cotton Farrell, P.C. and James M. Riley Jr., Coats Rose Yale Holm Ryman & Lee, Houston, Guy M. Hohmann, Hohmann Taube & Summers, L.L.P., Austin, Marvin B. Peterson and Ron T. Capehart, Law Office of Marvin B. Peterson, Houston, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Allen Eli Bell and John B. Turney, Bell, Turney, Coogan & Richards, L.L.P., Austin, Nova Carlene Rhodes and Shelly Ann Sanford, Goforth, Lewis & Williams, Carlene Rhodes Lewis, Goforth Lewis Sanford LLP, Houston, for respondents.