TATE, Judge.
In this concursus proceeding, the issue is whether prescription prevents the State from attacking an 1885 transfer by it as invalid insofar as it includes the bed of a navigable stream. We hold that the prescriptive statute does not protect the transfer in question and that therefore the State owns the mineral royalties attributable to production from the river bottom.
The plaintiff Coastal, holder of producing mineral leases, deposited into the...
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