Mbp Corp. v. Bd. Trustees Galveston Wharves

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• holding that port authority did not have the requisite intent to take commercial tenant’s property, “because a private landowner could have acted” in the same way
• “if the evidence reveals a fact question on the jurisdictional issue, we will remand the dispute to be resolved by the fact-finder.”
• “if the evidence reveals a fact question on the jurisdictional issue, we will remand the dispute to be resolved by the fact-finder.”
• “[Because a private landowner could have acted as the Wharves did, we conclude MBP has not shown the Wharves’ requisite intent to act under its sovereign powers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).