State v. Hollingsworth

POWERS, Justice.

Gil Hollingsworth and Bryce E. Evans appeal from a trial-court judgment cancel-ling certain claims to real property recorded by them with the county clerks of various Texas counties, the judgment having been rendered in a suit to quiet title brought by several State authorities.1 We will affirm the judgment.

THE CONTROVERSY

The controversy requires that we determine the proper construction and scope of Subchapter G of the Texas Natural Resources Code. Tex.Nat.Res.Code Ann. §§ 52.221-52.252 (1978). The Sixty-Eighth Legislature, repealed the subchapter, effective February 1, 1983,…