Pennington v. City of Corpus Christi

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit involves an area of land adjacent to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, generally known as the Flour Bluff area. More specifically, it involves the question of whether the City of Corpus Christi has a prior right to annex this territory or whether certain citizens have a prior right to incorporate such territory into a municipal corporation.

The City of Corpus Christi on January 4, 1961, received a petition for annexation, describing the Flour Bluff area adjacent to the City, which at the time was not a part of any other incorporated city then in existence or in…