STATE EX REL. GUSTE v. BOARD OF COM'RS, ETC.

No. 84-C-0312.

456 So.2d 605 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General, The Department of Natural Resources and the State Mineral Board v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF the ORLEANS LEVEE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser, David C. Kimmel, Michael O. Hesse, Robert H. Carpenter, Asst. Attys. Gen., for applicants-plaintiffs.

Richard J. McGinity, Baldwin & Haspel, Wilson S. Shirley, Jr., Lawrence K. Benson, Jr., David N. Schell, Jr., Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, for respondent-defendant.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

The State of Louisiana seeks a judgment declaring it the owner of those portions of the bed and bottom of Lake Pontchartrain situated in Orleans Parish which have not been reclaimed by projects of the Orleans Parish Levee Board. In addition, the state seeks a judgment declaring it the owner of mineral rights to those areas which have been reclaimed. The levee board answers and seeks a judgment declaring it the owner of all lands and lake bottoms...

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