STATE v. BRAZOS RIVER HARBOR NAV. DIST.

No. 13-91-279-CV.

831 S.W.2d 539 (1992)

The STATE of Texas, the General Land Office of the State of Texas, and the School Land Board of the State of Texas, Appellants, v. BRAZOS RIVER HARBOR NAVIGATION DISTRICT, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled June 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Steinberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Energy Div., Dan Morales, Atty. Gen., Will Pryor, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary F. Keller, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Ed Salazar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Energy Div., Austin, for appellants.

Leland B. Kee, Kee, Patterson & Neal, Attorneys at Law, Angleton, for appellee.

Before NYE, C.J., and SEERDEN and BISSETT, JJ.


OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

The State of Texas, the General Land Office, and the School Land Board (collectively the "State") appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of Brazos River Harbor Navigation District (Brazos) for title to certain property along the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico. We reverse and remand.

In 1870, the State granted to the heirs of James P. Caldwell a patent (the Caldwell Patent) to approximately 2,125 acres of land...

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