Crooks v. Department Of Natural Resources

In my opinion, even in light of the parties' stipulation regarding the Swamp Plaintiffs' ownership and if one accepts that the trial court was not manifestly erroneous in its conclusion regarding the classification of the area known as Catahoula Lake and the Lake Plaintiffs' ownership, prescriptive rules dictate a reversal in this matter. Chiefly, I find that the Plaintiffs' claims for compensation for inverse condemnation are barred by liberative prescription. Further, I believe that the Lake Plaintiffs lost any claim to ownership of the land by virtue of thirty-year acquisitive prescription.