Board of Water Eng of State v. Cty of San Antonio

This so far successful suit by the respondent, City of San Antonio, against our petitioner, Board of Water Engineers of the State of Texas, presents questions as to (a) existence vel non of a justiciable controversy within our Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act of 1943 (Art. 2524-1, Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. Ann.) and (b) validity of a given statutory amendment (Sec. 1-a of Art. 1434a, Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. Ann.) as against our constitutional restrictions concerning subjects and captions of legislative acts (Art. Ill, Sec. 35) and local or special laws (Art. Ill, Sec. 56), Vernon’s Ann.…