Smyth v. Board of Com'rs

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

The present controversy concerns the ownership of 8214.80 acres of swampland on Point au Fer Island in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The land in question was omitted from the original government surveys of the island which were made in 1837 and 1838, and this error, when discovered in recent years, was corrected by a re-survey and a plat of said survey was approved by the General Land Office on April 10, 1943. Following this approval, the State selected all of the lands shown on this plat, other than fractional Section 16, as. swamp and overflowed lands under the Swamp…