TEXAS OYSTER GROWERS ASSOCIATION v. ODOM

No. 11254.

385 S.W.2d 899 (1965)

TEXAS OYSTER GROWERS ASSOCIATION et al., Appellants, v. Will E. ODOM et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ryan & Eckhardt, Houston, for appellants.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Howard Fender, Jim Briscoe, Wayne R. Rodgers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Black & Stayton, Austin, Dyche, Wheat, Thornton & Wright, Hamblen & Hamblen, Bracewell, Reynolds & Patterson, Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Hugh M. Patterson, Liddell, Austin, Dawson & Sapp, Houston, Keith, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Raymond J. Fields, Dave McNeill, Jr., Houston, for appellees.


ARCHER, Chief Justice.

Appellants filed this suit to contest the validity of an order of a State Commission, appellees herein, granting dredging permits, and contended that dredging pursuant to such permits injured and destroyed shell reefs from which appellants harvest oysters for sale, and sought a declaratory judgment finding the order to be of no effect, and for injunction.

The Court dismissed the action upon a plea to the jurisdiction.

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