Deano v. Brouillette

| iWALTZER, Judge,

concurring.

While I agree that the trial court’s judgment should be affirmed, I believe that this Court should recognize that this result proceeds from recognition of an exception to the general rule in Louisiana that the water course and not the meander line is the correct boundary.

*128943 U.S.C. section 752, Boundaries and contents of public lands; how ascertained, provides the origin of meander lines:

Second. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the Secretary of the Interior ... shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the…