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HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. v. STATE MINERAL BOARD

No. 40964.

64 So.2d 839 (1953)

223 La. 47

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. v. STATE MINERAL BOARD et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., W. C. Perrault, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., John L. Madden, Joel B. Dickinson, Asst. Attys. Gen., James R. Fuller, Wm. Louis Albritton, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., Geo. M. Wallace, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants, State Mineral Board, et al.

Louis M. Cyr, New Iberia, Davidson & Meaux and J. J. Davidson, Jr., Lafayette, for defendants, Salt Domes, Inc., et al.

Tinsley Gilmer, Charles Janvier, New Orleans, Rex G. Baker and Nelson Jones, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff, Humble Oil & Refining Co.

McCALEB, Justice.

This controversy involves the ownership of the bed of Duck Lake which is located in the Atchafalaya Basin of the Parish of St. Martin, specifically within the confines of Section 36, T. 14 S., R. 11 E. The Section was among those certified by the State of Louisiana to the United States as swamp and overflow land and was approved by the United States to the State under the Swamp Land Grant Act, 43 U.S.C.A. §§ 981-987, on May 6th 1852. After...

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