HIDALGO COUNTY WATER CONTROL & IMP. DIST. v. HEDRICK

No. 15407.

226 F.2d 1 (1955)

HIDALGO COUNTY WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT No. 7, et al., v. Wyatt C. HEDRICK et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal King, Mission, Tex., Sawnie B. Smith, Edinburg, Tex., Hill, Lochridge, King & Hodson, Mission, Tex., for appellants.

Wilbur S. Cleaves, Houston, Tex., U. S. Algee, Laredo, Tex., Harbert Davenport, Brownsville, Tex., G. C. Mann, Laredo, Tex., Osce Fristoe, Harlingen, Tex., Henry H. Rankin, Jr., Edinburg, Tex., Raymond, Algee, Alvarado, Kazen & Woods, Laredo, Tex., for appellees.

John A. Pope, Jr., Rio Grande City, Tex., Rankin, Kilgore & Cherry, Edinburg, Tex., Fred J. Newland, Harlingen, Tex., Davenport & Ransome, Brownsville, Tex., for movant appellees.

Before TUTTLE, CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

Two Water Control and Improvement Districts, political subdivisions of the State of Texas, and two individuals, filed a complaint against a Texas corporation and a number of individuals, seeking a declaratory judgment and injunction. Federal jurisdiction rests solely on 28 U.S.C.A. § 1331, which is:

"The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions wherein the matter...

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