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BECKENDORFF v. HARRIS-GALVESTON COASTAL SUB. DIST.

No. 1716.

558 S.W.2d 75 (1977)

Sammy L. BECKENDORFF et al., Appellants, v. HARRIS-GALVESTON COASTAL SUBSIDENCE DISTRICT, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe G. Roady, Cox, Pakenham & Roady, Sam W. Levy, Levy & Levy, Houston, for appellants.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen, David M. Kendall, Jr., First Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Troy Webb, Chief, Environmental Protection Div., Donald W. Allee, John S. Teutsch, Linda M. Wells, Asst. Attys. Gen., Houston, Carl G. Mueller, Jr., Steven C. Oaks, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, for appellee.

COULSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a consolidated action brought by a number of water well owners and users in western Harris County seeking a determination that the act creating the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (the Act) is unconstitutional. The district court upheld the constitutionality of the Act. We affirm.

In April 1975, in response to the serious problems posed by subsidence in the Texas Gulf Coast area, the Texas Legislature passed...

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