Legal Opinion
Beckendorff v. Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided October 31, 1977No. 1716PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COULSON, Justice.
This is an appeal from a consolidated action brought by a number of water well owners and users in western Harris County seeking a determination that the act creating the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (the Act) is unconstitutional. The district court upheld the constitutionality of the Act. We affirm.
In April 1975, in response to the serious problems posed by subsidence in the Texas Gulf Coast area, the Texas Legislature passed an act, Tex. Laws 1975, ch. 284 at 672, creating the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District. The Act provided for the creation of…
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