Crow Iron Works v. Texas Water Rights Commission

O’QUINN, Justice.

Crow Iron Works and three other irriga-tors of land in the Rio Grande Valley brought this lawsuit against the Texas Water Rights Commission in July of 1975 seeking to set aside orders of the Commission denying requests of the irrigators for Class A Priority Water Allocations in lieu of existing Class B. Priorities.1

The Commission denied relief on the ground that plaintiffs’ claims of water right had been adjudicated finally in 1969 by judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals in State v. Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 18, 443 S.W.2d 728 (Tex.Civ.App.…