Case Name: ATCHAFALAYA LAND CO. v. JAMES (BOARD OF COM'RS OF ATCHAFALAYA BASIN LEVEE DIST. et al., Interveners)
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1919-11-03
Citations: 146 La. 109
Docket Number: No. 23217
Parties: ATCHAFALAYA LAND CO. v. JAMES (BOARD OF COM’RS OF ATCHAFALAYA BASIN LEVEE DIST. et al., Interveners).
Judges: MONROE, C. J., takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 146
Pages: 109–109

Head Matter:
(83 South. 426)
No. 23217.
ATCHAFALAYA LAND CO. v. JAMES (BOARD OF COM’RS OF ATCHAFALAYA BASIN LEVEE DIST. et al., Interveners).
(Nov. 3, 1919.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 1, 1919.)
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge.
Petitory action by the Atchafalaya Land Company against Mason James, in which Board of Commissioners of the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District and another intervene. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff and named inter-vener appeal.
Affirmed.
Burke & Smith and F. E. Delahoussaye, all of New Iberia, and J. H. Morrison, of New Roads, for appellants.
A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
DAWKINS, J.
Similar issues and the same property involved in the case of State ex rel. Board of Commissioners of Atchafalaya Basin Levee District v. Capdeville, Auditor, and Grace, Register, No. 23218, 83 South. 421, this day decided, are presented in, the present suit. Plaintiff brought the present petitory action to be decreed the owner of the beds of Lakes Rond, Dauterive, Fausse Pointe, and Little Lake Long, and to enjoin the lessees of the state from exercising mineral rights therein. The lower court rejected plaintiff's demands for the reason that the property belongs to the state, and plaintiff was without interest therein.
Having reached the same conclusion, and for the reasons assigned in No. 23218, the judgment appealed from is affirmed, at the cost of the appellant.
MONROE, C. J., takes no part.
PROVOSTY, J., recused.
Ante, p. D4..