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MOBIL OIL CORP. v. MATAGORDA COUNTY DRAINAGE DIST. NO. 3

No. B-8545.

597 S.W.2d 910 (1980)

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. MATAGORDA COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 3 et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest Smith and John E. Holt, Dallas, Lawrence P. Gwin, Bay City, Wood & Burney, Allen Wood, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Mark White, Atty. Gen., Austen H. Furse, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for intervenor.

Fred P. Holub, Bay City, Mayfield & Bowers, Verner L. Bowers, Jr., Palacios, Cox, Roady & Dawson, Joyce Cox and Margaret Garner Mirabal, Houston, for respondents.

POPE, Justice.

Mobil Oil Corporation filed suit in the district court seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against Matagorda County Drainage District No. 3, the Matagorda County Commissioners Court, and its members. The State of Texas intervened. Mobil insists that the drainage district's annexation of territory for the purpose of draining 178,557 acres of land covered by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico...

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