CRARY, ET UX. v. State Highway Comm.

Miss. Code 1942, Sec. 6066, gives riparian owners bordering on the G-ulf of Mexico, Mississippi Sound, and waters tributary thereto, the ‘ ‘ sole right of planting and gathering oysters and erecting bathhouses and other structures in front of” their lands, for 500 yards from the shore measured from the average low-watermark. The questions to be decided are (1) whether Sec. 6066 vested in appellants inalienable property rights in such 500-yard area, not subject to the imposition of an additional public use on such area; (2) whether the construction by the state of a bridge across the Bay of…