State Game & Fish Commission v. Louis Fritz Co.

The initial contention of appellee that it owns the soil or bed of the lake opposite its riparian lands and to the center or middle of the lake is well taken, and is established as correct by Richardson v. Sims, 118 Miss. 728, 80 So. 4. It owns the minerals thereunder, Archer v. Levee Com'rs, 158 Miss. 57,130 So. 55; Archer v. Greenville Sand Gravel Co., 233 U.S. 60, 34 S.Ct. 567, 58 L.Ed. 850, and by the same reason anything which becomes in the process of nature permanently attached thereto. Wineman v. Withers, 143 Miss. 537, 108 So. 708.

But appellee, as riparian owner and as owner of the…