City of Ingleside v. City of Corpus Christi (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseThis case involved a boundary dispute between the City of Ingleside and the City of Corpus Christi over the scope of an ordinance establishing the adjacent bay waters’ “shoreline” as the common border. Each city claimed that several piers, bulkheads, wharves, and artificial structures affixed to Ingleside’s shore and projecting into bay waters fell within its jurisdictional boundaries. Ingleside sued Corpus Christi seeking a declaration that the structures were functionally part of the land and therefore were within the jurisdiction of the land side of the shoreline. The court of appeals concluded that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to establish the boundary between the two cities because the issue was a purely political question not subject to judicial review. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that whether natural and artificial conditions are protrusions of the “shoreline” is a justiciable issue materially distinct from a legislative determination about where to establish a municipal boundary line, and therefore, Ingelside’s declaration did not require the court to address a political question beyond the Court’s competence or authority. Remanded.
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