Legal Opinion
Feinman v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided July 17, 1986No. 01-85-0528-CVPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAM BASS, Justice.
This appeal concerns a strip of beach running from the Galveston seawall to San Luis Pass (“West Beach”) and the effect that the receding beach line has on the State’s easement along West Beach.
Appellants each own property on West Beach that was damaged when Hurricane Alicia (“Alicia”) battered the Texas Gulf Coast in August of 1983. Not long after Alicia, the Attorney General notified some of the Appellants that they were in violation of the Open Beaches Act 1 (“the Act”) because all or a portion of their properties were seaward of the post-Alicia vegetation line. 2…
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- Puga v. Donna Fruit Co., Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1982
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