Court Opinion

ID: 9828318
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:17:26.221522+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:26:17.516083
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
After being favored with oral as well as written arguments on rehearing from counsel for all parties, we have been constrained to adhere to all our former conclusions 'in this cause, save the holding that the board of water engineers does not constitute the head of a department of the state government within the meaning of R. S. article 1995, subd. 20; pursuant to a reconsideration of the authorities cited by the Attorney General, we now think it should be held to be such. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, subdivision 20 of article 1995; Herring v. Houston National Exchange Bank, 113 Tex. 264, 253 S. W. 813; Herring v. Houston National Exchange Bank, 114 Tex. 394, 269 S. W. 1031.
However, since it was originally further determined that the board and its members were not necessary parties to the suit, as to which no error has been perceived, no other change in that judgment is entailed than their dismissal from the cause. It has accordingly been ordered that the board of water engineers of the state and its members be dismissed from this suit, and that in all other respects the several motions for rehearing be overruled.
Overruled.