Texas Oyster Growers Association v. Odom

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

Appellants filed this suit to contest the validity of an order of a State Commission, appellees herein, granting dredging permits, and contended that dredging pursuant to such permits injured and destroyed shell reefs from which appellants harvest oysters for sale, and sought a declaratory judgment finding the order to be of no effect, and for injunction.

The Court dismissed the action upon a plea to the jurisdiction.

The appeal is founded on one point and is: That the trial court erred in sustaining the plea to the jurisdiction asserted by Commissioner Defendants and in…