Humble Pipe Line Co. v. State

The state of Texas ex rel. its Attorney General sued appellant Humble Pipe Line Company, a common carrier pipe line corporation, in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, and to temporarily enjoin, pending a final hearing of the cause, the continued laying of its pipe lines from a point on the mainland at Corpus Christi Bay, across and upon the bottoms of Red Pish Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, the tide lands adjacent thereto (except Mustang Island), and the Gulf of Mexico opposite Mustang Island, to two deep sea loading points, all within the three-mile territorial jurisdiction of the state.…