Legal Opinion
City of Galena Park v. City of Houston
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided October 19, 1939No. 10953PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Justice.
On April 18, 1913, the City of Houston, by an ordinance in all respects appropriating such power to do that as was granted it (a duly qualified city) under a general law of the State passed March 17, 1913, now appearing as Chapter 14, Title 28, or Articles 1183 to 1187, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of Texas, extended its boundaries for an air-line distance of 20 miles from its then eastern limit-line down and along Bpffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel, so as to include within the City for that distance such navigable stream, together with the land adjoining it on…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Taylor v. City of Fort WayneIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Strosser v. City of Fort WayneIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Hunt v. AtkinsonTexas Commission of Appeals · 1929
- People ex rel. Bancroft v. LeaseIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
- Pottlitzer v. Citizens Trust Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1915
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3Cited by32 opinions
- City of Irving v. Dallas County Flood Control DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1964
- City of Pasadena v. State Ex Rel. City of HoustonTexas Supreme Court · 1969
- City of Irving v. CallawayCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1962
- Mobil Oil Corp. v. Matagorda County Drainage District No. 3Texas Supreme Court · 1980
- City of Felly v. Harris County Water Control & Improvement District No. 7Texas Supreme Court · 1946
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