Case Name: PALMER CO., Inc., v. COTTON QUEEN OIL CO. (STATE, Intervener)
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1917-04-16
Citations: 141 La. 305
Docket Number: No. 22128
Parties: PALMER CO., Inc., v. COTTON QUEEN OIL CO. (STATE, Intervener).
Judges: SOMMERVILLE, J., takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 305–305

Head Matter:
(74 South. 1003)
No. 22128.
PALMER CO., Inc., v. COTTON QUEEN OIL CO. (STATE, Intervener).
(April 16, 1917.)
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; R. D. Webb, Judge.
Action by the Palmer Company, Incorporated, against the Cotton Queen Oil Company, in which the State of Louisiana intervened. From an adverse judgment, plaintiff appeals.
Judgment set aside, and judgment rendered for plaintiff.
Alexander & Wilkinson, of Shreveport, for appellant. J. G. Palmer and Clem Y. Rat-cliff, both of Shreveport, for appellee. A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., and Harry Gamble, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State. W. A. Mabry, of Shreveport, for Louisiana Oil Refining Co.

Opinion:
PROVOSTY, J.
The property in dispute in this case is the alluvion which has formed in the bed of Red river opposite the property of plaintiff, fronting on said river and described as follows:
"All that part of the fractional N. % of section 13, township 13, range 11 W., in the parish of Red river, excepting N. E. % of the N. E. % of said section 13 lying east of Red river."
Plaintiff claims title by right of accretion under article 509 of the Civil Code; whereas the state claims ownership by virtue of her sovereignty, which gives her title to the beds of navigable rivers. The defendant is lessee of the state, and claims under the lease.
The case has been submitted without argument, oral or written, with the statement that the issues involved are the same as in the. case of State v. Richardson, 72 South. 984, No. 21880 of the docket of this court, recently decided, and with the understanding, as we gather, that the conclusion reached in that case is decisive of the present.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that there be judgment setting aside the judgment appealed from, dismissing the intervention of the state, and quieting the plaintiff in the possession of the said property, and particularly the alluvion in front thereof, and that an injunction issue restraining and prohibiting the defendant, the Cotton Queen Oil Company, from interfering with plaintiff's said possession, and that the defendant pay all costs.
SOMMERVILLE, J., takes no part.
. 140 La. 329.