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DARDAR v. LAFOURCHE REALTY CO., INC.

No. 91-3522.

985 F.2d 824 (1993)

Summersgill DARDAR, Plaintiff, Raymond Serigney, Luke Billiot, Joe Billiot, Deborah Taylor, Whitney Billiot, Plaintiffs-Appellants, The State of Louisiana, Intervenor-Appellant, v. LAFOURCHE REALTY CO., INC., John Plaisance & Sons, Inc., Alex J. Plaisance, Jr., Col. Eugene S. Witherspoon, Lt. Gen. E.R. Heiberg III and John O. Marsh, Jr., Defendants-Appellees. Summersgill DARDAR, Plaintiff, Raymond Serigney et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LAFOURCHE REALTY CO., INC. et al., Defendants, and Col. Eugene S. Witherspoon et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 15, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Kimmel, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, LA, for State of La.

Michael Osborne, Osborne, McComiskey & Gobert, New Orleans, LA, for Serigney, Billiot & Taylor.

William R. Pitts, P. Albert Bienvenu, Jr., New Orleans, LA, for Lafourche Realty, John Plaisance & Sons, Inc. & Alex Plaisance, Jr.

Dirk D. Snel, Martin W. Matze, Washington, DC, for The Secretary of the Army, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Dept. of Army, District Engineer, New Orleans Dist. Dept. of Justice.

Before HILL, KING and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, commercial fishermen, sued the Lafourche Realty Co., Inc. seeking the right to use a system of navigable waters controlled by Lafourche Realty through an arrangement of fences, gates, and levees. The State of Louisiana intervened, asserting a right of public use of the waters and claiming title to the water bodies and over twelve thousand acres of land under the waters.

Lafourche Realty, the record owner of the property...

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