CRARY, ET UX. v. STATE HIGHWAY COMM.

No. 39014.

219 Miss. 284 (1953)

68 So.2d 468

46 Adv. S. 25

CRARY, et ux. v. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morse & Morse, Gulfport, for appellants.

Matthew Harper, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

Miss. Code 1942, Sec. 6066, gives riparian owners bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Sound, and waters tributary thereto, the "sole right of planting and gathering oysters and erecting bathhouses and other structures in front of" their lands, for 500 yards from the shore measured from the average low-watermark. The questions to be decided are (1) whether...

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