Coastal Industrial Water Authority v. York

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is a trespass to try title suit with which is combined a count for declaratory judgment. The purpose of the suit was to determine the ownership of 3.353 acres of submerged land adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel. The controversy arose in a condemnation suit in which Coastal Industrial Water Authority, the defendant in this suit, sought to condemn all of a tract of land owned by W. D. York and others, the plaintiffs in this suit. The County Court at Law stayed proceedings in the condemnation suit until the question of the ownership of the submerged land could be…