239 So. 2d 484 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
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3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1975
most recently cited
3 state decisions
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Relies on Miami Corporation v. State · Stevens v. State Mineral Board · 221 So. 2d 645 - Stevens v. State Mineral Board
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“"The first link in plaintiffs' title is a transfer of land by the State to the Grand Prairie Levee District under the provision of Act 27 of 1904. That act authorized transfer of certain statement owned lands to the Grand Prairie Levee District for the purpose of assisting the district in constructing a system of levees. Act 52 of that same year (an Oyster Statute) provided in part: `Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That all the beds and bottoms of the rivers, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds and inlets bordering on or connecting with the Gulf of Mexico, * * * shall be, continue and remain the property of the State of Louisiana, * * *. No grant, sale or conveyance of the lands forming the bottoms or beds of said bodies or streams of water, except the conditional leases and dispositions hereinafter provided for, shall hereafter be made by the Register of the State Land Office, * * *.' Act 52 of 1904. "Thus, the 1905 conveyance, insofar as it purported to transfer land forming the bed of a navigable body of water connected with the Gulf of Mexico, was a nullity. In fact, the act authorizing the transfer (Act 27) by its own terms limits the transfer to land (see concurring opinion in Stevens, 221 So.2d 645, 650 ). "The second link is a sheriff's sale dated October 29, 1910 under which (quoting from the act) ` * * * Frank C. Meyers, Sheriff of the Parish of Plaquemines, by virtue of and in obedience to, an order of sale to me directe”
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