Jurisich v. Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries

GULOTTA, Judge.

In this mandamus proceeding, inter-venors (applicants for oyster leases), appeal from the trial court’s judgment permitting plaintiff (the original applicant for an oyster lease in the disputed area), to lease a 209 acre area of water bottoms when he originally sought a 60 acre area in his application. Intervenors further complain of the dismissal of their claims for oyster leases within that 209 acre area.

Plaintiff, on the other hand, claims the trial judge, in a separate judgment, erred in failing to allow him to increase his lease acreage from 209 acres to 641 acres. We…