Supreme Court of Texas

In a suit over an easement and the ability of petitioner-state water authority to condemn an easement for the construction and operation of a second intake and pipeline, judgment is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part where: 1) the easement agreement does not convey to the petitioner sufficient rights to construct a second water intake and pipeline; but 2) the prospective easement, which restricts access to only a small portion of the lake, does not practically destroy the lake's public recreational use.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2008
• Published 05/16/2008

Judges

• Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory S. Coleman, Marc S. Tabolsky, Yetter & Warden, L.L.P., Mike A. Hatchell, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP, Paul M. Terrill III, Hazen & Terrill, P.C., Austin, TX, David W. Ross, Law Offices of Ralph Brown, Dennis K. Drake, Attorney at Law, Ralph Brown, San Antonio, TX, for Petitioner., Louis T. Rosenberg, Law Offices of Louis T. Rosenberg, San Antonio, TX, Lamar W. Hankins, San Marcos, TX, Lauren Jennifer Kalisek, Lloyd Gosselink Blevins Rochelle & Townsend, P.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• David P. Blanke, Molly Cagle, Tanya D. Dement, Spikes Kangerga, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Roger P. Nevola, Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola, Austin, TX, James S. Frost, Kirkendall Frost & Allen, Seguin, TX, for Respondent.