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LUTTES v. STATE

No. A-5858.

324 S.W.2d 167 (1958)

J. W. LUTTES et al., Petitioners, v. The STATE of Texas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied December 10, 1958.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied May 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davenport & Ransome, Brownsville, for J. W. Luttes.

R. H. Whilden, W. G. Winters, Jr., C. E. Nadeau, Houston, Dan Moody, Austin, for Shell Oil Co.

Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

GARWOOD, Justice.

The ultimate issue in this dispute between the State of Texas (defendant below, by consent, and respondent here) and the plaintiffs, Luttes et al. (our petitioners) is the title to some 3,400 acres of mud flats or former sea bottom in Cameron County lying along, and alleged to be accretions to, the mainland or westerly edge of the long, narrow lagoon known as Laguna Madre, about fifteen or twenty miles north of Port Isabel and the mouth of the Rio...

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