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TODD v. STATE THROUGH DEPT. OF NATURAL RES.

No. 82-C-2915.

456 So.2d 1340 (1983)

Robert B. TODD, et al. v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES of the State of Louisiana.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing October 15, 1984.

Rehearing Granted December 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser, David C. Kimmel, H. Glen Kent, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for applicant.

Stephen P. Dart, Kilbourne & Dart, St. Francisville, Leslie D. Ligon, Jr., Ligon & Ware, Clinton, W. Hugh Sibley, Greensburg, for respondents.

Ernest R. Eldred, George L. Clauer, III, Sp.Asst.Attys. Gen. and R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Leonard L. Kilgore, III and A. N. Yiannopoulos of counsel, for amicus curiae.

CALOGERO, Justice.

We address in this opinion a question heretofore undecided by this Court, whether a possessory action may be brought against the State of Louisiana.1 The case comes to us as a result of the following natural and legal events.

Turnbull Island was originally a peninsula-like section of land in West Feliciana Parish bordering Avoyelles, Concordia and Pointe Coupee Parishes, and around which the Mississippi River...

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