Arkansas Game & Fish Comm'n v. Parker

John A. Fogleman,

Justice, dissenting. I respectfully submit that an improper application of the doctrine of estoppel to divest the state of its title to real estate is being made by the majority. It seems to me that courts should be particularly reluctant to invoke this doctrine against the state acting in its sovereign capacity. See 28 Am. Jur. 2d 782, et seq., §§ 122 and 123 and cases cited; also, see Annot. 1 A. L. R. 2d 338 (1948) and cases cited. See also United States v. Lee Wilson & Co., 214 F. 630 (E. D. Ark. 1914), aff’d, 227 F. 827 18th Cir. 1915), aff’d, 245 U. S. 24, 38 S. Ct. 21,…