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- Title: Coastal Industrial Water Authority v. W. D. York Et Al.
- Author : The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Release Date : January 28, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
Description
The question here is the ownership of riparian land which has subsided or sunk slowly beneath the water level of the Houston Ship Channel. Coastal Industrial Water Authority sought in a related action to condemn land owned by W.D. York et al., and a dispute arose as to whether the condemnor was required to take and pay for 3.353 acres which on the date of taking was submerged on the fringe of the Ship Channel. The condemnation suit was stayed until the title question could be resolved. York et al. then filed this declaratory judgment suit in district court to resolve the question of the line between public and private ownership. The trial court entered judgment which upheld Yorks claim to ownership to the 3.353 acres as of the date of taking. The Court of Civil Appeals agreed (520 S.W.2d 494), and so do we.