Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. v. Harris County Toll Road Authority

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• holding that \the main purposes of roads and streets are for travel and transportation\ and when a utility installs its facilities pursuant to a statutory grant, it does so on the \implied condition that the structures shall not interfere ... with any other public use\
• explaining the use of roads by utilities to lay lines is subservient to the main purpose of the road, which is travel and transportation
• \[U]nder the 'long-established common law principle ... a utility forced to relocate from a public right-of-way must do so at its own expense.' \
• because appellate court could not ascertain the date on which prejudgment interest would begin accruing, the order did not constitute a final judgment
• “[U]nder the ‘long-established common law principle . . . a utility forced to relocate from a public right-of-way must do so at its own expense.’”
• “[b]ut as we have often noted, the Legislature is best positioned to waive or abrogate sovereign immunity ‘because this allows the Legislature to protect its policymaking function”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).