State v. Board of Com'rs of Caddo Levee Dist.

ROGERS, Justice..

This suit involves a controversy between the State of Louisiana and the Board of Commissioners of the Caddo Levee District over the ownership of the bed of the nonnavigable portion of Black bayou, lying in township 23 north, range 16 west, parish of Caddo. On November 12, 1917, the state auditor and the register of the state land office, purporting to act under provisions of Act No. 74 of 1892, as amended by Act No. 160 of 1900, certified and transferred the land in dispute to the defendant levee board.

The State alleges that it acquired the property by virtue of the Swamp…