Nuttall v. Lankford

This appeal involves the right of Morattico Packing Company, Incorporated, to possession of certain oyster planting grounds in the bed of the Rappahannock river, in Lancaster county. The case turns on the interpretation of section 3193 which was inserted in the Code of Virginia by the Acts of 1936, ch. 393, pp. 650, 673, and thereafter amended by the Acts of 1938, ch. 391, p. 712 (Michie’s Code of 1942, sec. 3193). The pertinent portions of the statute are copied in the margin.1

*535In May, 1946, Fred Nuttall, the appellant, filed in the court below a bill for a declaratory judgment against Flon.…