Texas Property Rights Upheld in Pipeline Ruling
“Private property right advocates cheered an opinion issued Thursday by the Ninth Court of Appeals in Beaumont in a case involving wealthy East Texas landowner — and storied trial lawyer — Wayne Reaud, who challenged the company that insisted it could take his land through the power of eminent domain.
“It stood up for individual property rights, which is something that Texas has always valued,” Reaud said of the court.
Reaud’s fight began late 2011 when Crosstex NGL Pipeline L.P. told him it was going to run a pipeline across Reins Road Farms, a piece of land in Jefferson County Reaud said he bought for his children to develop someday.
Reaud told the company he wasn’t interested in selling and later refused to give surveyors access to the property, he said.”
Hispanic Business 24 May 2013.