Almost one year ago, in October of 2023, Collier Materials, Inc. unexpectedly dropped its applications for a controversial dredging operation on Lake LBJ and the aggregate company’s name slipped from the headlines. The Marble Falls-based company again is in the news after recently filing a lawsuit in a Llano County district court. Collier Materials is alleging that the owners of two tracts of ranchland—where it intended to place its wash plants for the tons of sand and gravel it planned to scoop out of the lake—were fraudulent in their dealings with the company.
Collier Materials filed its initial complaint on Aug. 28, against four defendants: Spinner Beheim, LLC; Kingsland Ranch Limited Partnership; and individuals Marsha Spinner and Beverly Beheim, who are sisters. The complaint alleges two instances of breach of contract and three instances of fraud. Collier is asking the court to award “over $1 million in monetary relief” and for the court to declare the leases on the two tracts to be “a binding and enforceable contract.” Additionally, Collier Materials claims an injury of more than $50 million “in lost profits that it would have otherwise earned in completing the dredging projects...” according to the complaint.
Austin Shell, an attorney with a law firm in Marble Falls who is representing Collier Materials, told the News on Monday that the lawsuit is in progress.
