Bickham v. City of Shreveport

By Act 31 of 1910, p, 50, the state of Louisiana granted to the city of Shreveport the ancient bed of Cross Lake, in Caddo parish, as a reservoir and storing basin for a water supply for said city, on condition that it "should be so used within 10 years or revert to the state. And by Act 149 of 1920, p. 228, the delay was extended to July 1, 1926.

In the summer of 1923 the city decided to avail itself of said grant; and in November of said year it authorized a large bond issue for that purpose. It is admitted that the city is about to erect a dam across said hollow, and that the erection…