The Brief Granbury leaders hired an attorney to sue the city in order to stop a recall election from being scheduled, according to court documents obtained by FOX 4. The lawsuit claims there are errors in the petition that called for the recall election, a petition brought about after Granbury residents' concerns over a potential data center in the city. Granbury registered voters filed the petition after they say city leaderes failed to disclose their interest in building a data center on 2,200 acres of city land annexed earlier this year.



Some of the Granbury city leaders who are subject to a recall petition are behind a lawsuit filed against the city, one that has halted plans to schedule the recall election.

Granbury leaders sue city

What we know:

In a court filing obtained and reviewed by FOX 4, several Granbury city leaders are behind a lawsuit filed on Tuesday that put plans to schedule a recall election on hold.

The suit, filed by Houston-based attorney Andy Taylor, claims a recall petition signed by registered voters in Granbury is invalid due to  fraud, forgery and other non-accidental defects on the part of one or more persons gathering signatures. 

Granbury Mayor Jim Jarratt, Granbury Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Wadley, and Granbury City Councilman Skip Overdier are listed as plaintiffs in the suit. All three are subject to a potential recall election.

The lawsuit seeks to stop the recall election entirely.

Granbury data center fight

The backstory:

The recall elections were brought to city council after a petition was signed by 15% of Granbury's registered voters, totaling over 1,300 signatures.

Those residents expressed concern that city leaders did not disclose enough information after receiving data center concept plans that could be built on 2,200 acres of land annexed by the city earlier this year.

Per the city's charter,  Such petition shall contain a statement of the specific acts of misfeasance and/or malfeasance for which the removal is sought, and one of the signers of each petition paper shall make an affidavit as prescribed below. 

At Tuesday's Granbury City
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