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COASTAL INDUSTRIAL WATER AUTH. v. YORK

No. B-5256.

532 S.W.2d 949 (1976)

COASTAL INDUSTRIAL WATER AUTHORITY, Petitioner, v. W. D. YORK et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Day, City Atty., Fred Spence and Clifton E. Speir, Asst. City Attys., Houston, for petitioner.

Liddell, Sapp, Zivley & Brown, John C. Nabors and Christopher B. Allen, Houston, for respondents.

REAVLEY, Justice.

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...

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