HIGH-SPEED RAIL PICKS UP COURT VICTORY

  

The company that is attempting to construct a high-speed rail connecting Houston and Dallas has won a major court decision.

The state's Thirteenth Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's ruling that would have prevented Texas Central from using eminent domain.

The court ruled late last week, Texas Central is both a railroad company and an interurban electric railway, which grants it the same rights as a railroad, which including eminent domain and access for surveyors to private property.

The decision reverses the ruling made by the 87th District Court in Leon County where landowners argued that the Texas Central project was not a railroad.

An opposition group says the decision will be appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.