In Re Adjudication of the Water Rights, Etc.

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adjudication of the water rights along the Upper Guadalupe River. The Texas Water Rights Commission, acting under the Water Adjudication Act of 1967, determined the water rights of owners of 208 separate tracts of land that border the Upper Guadalupe River. Nineteen parties excepted, and, after hearing additional evidence, the 57th District Court made final the adjudication. The judgment fully recognized the riparian right to domestic and livestock uses; it recognized no riparian rights for lands granted after July 1, 1895; it recognized the riparian…