Fairbanks v. Hidalgo County Water Improvement Dist. No. 2

Statement of Case and Pleadings.

BLAIR, J.

This is an appeal from an order of tbe district court sustaining certain pleas to tbe jurisdiction of tbe court, filed by tbe appellee state board of water engineers, and dismissing it from tbe suit, and from an interlocutory order sustaining a plea of privilege, filed by appellees Hidalgo county water improvement district No. 2 and tbe Louisiana-Rio Grande Canal Company.

Tbe suit, in so far as this appeal is concerned, was brought by appellants, Margaret McAllen Fairbanks, joined by ber husband, George Fairbanks, against the state board of water…