BARSHOP v. MEDINA UNDER. WAT. CONS. DIST.

No. 95-0881.

925 S.W.2d 618 (1996)

Phil BARSHOP, Ralph Zendejas, Mike Beldon, Rosa Maria Gonzalez, John Sanders, Sylvia Ruiz Mendelsohn, Joe Bernal, Rogelio Munoz, Mack Martinez, Jane Hughson, Doug Miller, Paula DiFonzo, and The State of Texas, Appellants, v. MEDINA COUNTY UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 28, 1996.

Rehearing Overruled August 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry A. Chasnoff, Stephan B. Rogers, Eulogio Garza, San Antonio, Elbert Hooper, Joe R. Greenhill, Corwin W. Johnson, Austin, Mary Q. Kelly, L. Eric Friedland, Charles C. Bailey, Russell S. Johnson, Richard L. Crozier, San Antonio, Dan Morales, Brian E. Berwick, Austin, Polly Jessica Estes, San Antonio, for Appellants.

W. Scott McCullough, E. Small, Gary L. Bledsoe, Austin, Louis T. Rosenberg, San Antonio, Dan Morales, Javier Aguilar, Harry G. Potter, Brain E. Berwick, Austin, Pedro G. Nieto, Uvalde, Richard Wesley Russell, Castroville, Jennifer S. Riggs, Austin, for Appellees.


Justice ABBOTT delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

This case concerns water rights in Texas. The clash between the property rights of landowners in the water beneath their land and the right of the State to regulate water for the benefit of all is more than a century old. This case presents another chapter in this ongoing battle.

Historically, landowners have had property rights in the water beneath their land. Over time, however, the State has increasingly...

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