Mobil Oil Corp. v. Matagorda County Drainage District No. 3

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• holding county drainage district had no implied authority to annex “lands upon which it cannot perform the services that the water code authorizes it to perform”
• interpretation and effect of chapter 56 to district created prior to 1912 under Drainage Act
• by annexing territory in gulf, drainage district acted beyond its limited powers
• “It is the finality which makes a judgment a subject for review.”

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