Professor Johnson taught at the University of Texas Law School for nearly 60 years. He died on July 29, 2004 at the age of 86 years.
Professor Johnson played a vital role in the development of water law in Texas through publishing articles, advising Texas legislative agencies, and organizing and participating in conferences. His last public speaking engagement, on June 15, 2004, was at the Texas Water Development Board symposium observing the 100th anniversary of the rule of capture.
Johnson was born in Hamlet, Indiana on October 5, 1917. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees. He also studied at Yale Law School as a Sterling Fellow. During World War II he served as a Special Agent of the F.B.I., engaged in counter-espionage and other law enforcement activities in field offices in Memphis, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Professor Johnson joined the faculty of UT Law School as an assistant professor in 1947. He retired in 1988 as the Edward Clark Centennial Professor Emeritus, but through a modified service policy, continued to teach half time for more than a dozen years. Professor Johnson was co-author with John E. Cribbet, Roger W. Findley, and Ernest E. Smith of a leading property casebook, Property: Cases and Materials (8th Ed., 2003). He was co-author with John E. Cribbet of a treatise, Principles of The Law of Property (3rd ed. 1989).
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