City of San Benito v. Rio Grande Valley Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that unnamed class members can appeal a class settlement under the doctrine of virtual representation even if they do not intervene in the trial court
• stating that court would presume attorney was the cities’ attorney because challenge to attorney’s authority to represent cities was waived by failure to obtain ruling on motion to show authority in the trial court
• denying challenge to city’s attorney as counsel because motion to show authority was not filed in trial court
• “Under Texas jurisprudence, an appeal can generally only be brought by a named party to the suit.”
• “Cities can express and bind themselves only by way of a duly assembled [city council] meeting.”
• “’the words of one city council member or city employee do not ordinarily bind the entire city council’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).