Merritt v. Gravenmier

This litigation involves the question of the validity of local fish laws in Chicot County. Tlie General Assembly of 1919 ('Special Acts 1919, p. 177) enacted a statute authorizing the county court of Chicot County or the judge in vacation to issue a license, upon competitive bidding, to some person for the purpose of catching cat fish, gar and buffalo fish by seine • in the waters-of Lake Chicot, Grand Lake, Macon Lake and Boeuf River. The statute specifies that the seining must be done with a seine not less than three hundred feet long, with meshes not less than four inches; that license…