Cummins v. Travis County Water Control & Improvement District No. 17

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that property on Lake Travis was not vested with riparian rights because lake on which it was located is an artificial, or man-made, lake
• noting that Lake Travis, another Highland Lake created by damming of Colorado River in 1950s, is man-made lake
• defining “littoral” as relating to “the coast or shore of an ocean, sea, or lake” and “riparian” as relating to “the bank of a river or stream”
• “[A]ny such rights an owner may have can only be exercised in a reasonable fashion and are subject to the State’s police powers”
• “[O]wnership of waterfront property is subject to regulation under the State’s police powers and, hence, their rights must yield to the regulations that serve the public’s interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).