STATE v. BOURDON

No. 20071-CA.

535 So.2d 1091 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Massie Lee Barbo BOURDON and John Henry Bourdon, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied January 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser, David C. Kimmel, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

William R. Jones, Coushatta, for defendants-appellees.

Before MARVIN, FRED W. JONES, Jr. and LINDSAY, JJ.


MARVIN, Judge.

In this petitory action to determine ownership of the bed of an oxbow lake created in this century by Red River near the Grand Bayou community in Red River Parish, the State appeals a judgment rejecting its demands and decreeing that the 123-acre bed of the lake is privately owned by defendants by virtue of 30 years acquisitive prescription.

We affirm on the authority of C.C. Art. 504; Dickson v. Sandefur, 259 La. 473<...

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