Board of Water Engineers v. Briscoe

This litigation — coming here as the residuum of two consolidated suits the appellees filed below against the state board of water engineers and the individuals Jackson and Lehrer, whereby they sought to have undone the prior action of the board granting the two persons named a permit to take and appropriate water from the Brazos river, and to have such a permit granted to, or right thereto vested in, themselves instead — calls for an interpretation of the policy of the state with reference to the use of its public waters, as is reflected in title 128 of our Revised Civil Statutes (article…