State ex rel. Guste v. Board of Commissioners

KLEES, Judge.

This suit was for a Declaratory Judgment instituted by the State of Louisiana, the Department of Natural Resources and the Louisiana State Mineral Board. (Hereinafter referred to as the State). Petitioners were seeking to have themselves declared the owners of those portions of the bed and bottom of Lake Pontchartrain situated within the territorial limits of the “Lakefront Improvement Project” and under the jurisdiction of the Orleans Levee Board (hereinafter referred to as the Levee Board) not filled in or reclaimed by the Levee Board. The State further sought recognition of…