State v. R. E. Janes Gravel Co.

McClendon, chief justice.

This suit (with which another suit was consolidated) was brought by the State against a number of defendants to enjoin them from taking gravel from the bed and south or right bank of the Colorado river between the railroad and Congress avenue bridges, within the City of Austin, and from an island in the river below the Congress avenue bridge, without a permit from the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission as required by Arts. 4051 and 4053, V.A.C.S. Damages were also sought for the value of gravel allegedly already taken from the bed and banks of the river and from the…