The issue here is whether the State of Mississippi, when it entered the Union in 1817, took title to lands lying under waters that were influenced by the tide running in the Gulf of Mexico, but were not navigable in fact.
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As the Mississippi Supreme Court eloquently put it: "Though great public interests and neither insignificant nor illegitimate private...
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