CITY OF PORT ISABEL v. MISSOURI PACIFIC R. CO.

No. 13-86-317-CV.

729 S.W.2d 939 (1987)

The CITY OF PORT ISABEL, Appellant, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, and Missouri Improvement Company, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Hubbard, Adams, Graham, Jenkins, Graham & Hamby, Harlingen, for appellant.

Edward R. Rodriguez, Brownsville, Steve Stewart, David V. Suson, Jenkens, Hutchison & Gilchrist, Houston, for appellees.

Before UTTER, SEERDEN, and DORSEY, JJ.


OPINION

UTTER, Justice.

This is a dispute concerning title to certain submerged and partially submerged land in the Laguna Madre adjacent to Port Isabel, Texas. The trial court rendered judgment that Missouri Pacific owns fee simple title to the land. We reverse and render the judgment of the trial court.

We have included a diagram of the area for reference. The shaded areas represent the disputed land.1 The trial court...

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