Coastal Industrial Water Authority v. W. D. York

How courts have described this case

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• discussing erosion, accretion, and avulsion doctrines affecting property boundaries and riparian ownership in the Houston Ship Channel
• noting the Legislature granted the City of Houston the bed of the Houston Ship Channel, a navigable stream partially below the tide line
• “A riparian or littoral owner may not acquire title to submerged land through self-help by filling and raising the land level.”
• “The general rule is that a riparian or littoral owner acquires or loses title to the land gradually or imperceptibly added or taken to or from his fast bank or shore.”
• title to riparian land, submerged due to subsidence, not lost to state
• title to riparian land, submerged due to subsidence, not lost to state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).