State Ex Rel. Saint v. Timothy

This suit is based upon two grounds, viz.: That defendants have permanently appropriated a portion of the bed of Lake Pontchartrain to their exclusive use and are thereby committing a trespass and purpresture upon the public domain; and that the location of the structure they have erected on the bed of the lake is immediately adjacent to the channel used by boats entering the artificial harbor of the Howze Beach Road; that it is not marked by lights at night, and for these reasons, and because of the public’s use of the toilets in the structure, it is a public nuisance. The second ground does…