State v. Aransas Dock and Channel Company

BARROW, Justice.

This is a trespass to try title suit involving the mineral estate of approximately 1290 acres of submerged land and flats situated in Red Fish Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and on Harbor Island in Nueces County. The case was tried without a jury and the State is appealing from a judgment which adjudicates fee simple title to both surface and mineral estates in subject tracts in the appellees, Aransas Dock and Channel Company and Aransas Properties, Inc. The State does not question appellees’ title to the surface estate.

The five surveys in question were each patented to the Aransas…