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THE JOHN G. AND MARIE STELLA KENEDY MEM'L FOUND. v. DEWHURST, 99-0667

In a dispute over the location of the shoreline boundary of two early nineteenth-century land grants, the shoreline boundary is to be set at measured mean daily higher high water levels.

Appellate Information

  • Argued 04/11/2001
  • Decided 08/29/2002
  • Published 08/29/2002

Judges

  • Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice OWEN, Justice O'NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

  • Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

  • For Appellant:
  • Paul W. Nye,Gary E. Ramirez, Roberta S. Dohse, Chavez Gonzales & Hoblit, Corpus Christi;  Shannon H. Ratliff, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Austin;  Marc O. Knisley, Thomas J. Forestier, McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore, Houston;  Richard L. Leshin, The Kleburg Law Firm, San Antonio;  and Mike A. Hatchell, Hatchell, P.C., Tyler, for Petitioner.

  • For Appellees:
  • John J. McKetta, III, Ben F. Vaughan, III, Kathryn E. Allen, Boyce C. Cabaniss, John B. McFarland, Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, Austin;  and John Cornyn, Attorney General of the State of Texas, Austin, for Respondent.
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