Money v. Wood

The appellee, Wood, filed a bill in the chancery court to prevent the appellants from erecting a structure, in the Mississippi Sound, in front of his home, in Biloxi, Miss., and in front of his property on the west end of Deer Island. It appears that the appellants had undertaken to buy lands from the state of Mississippi lying under the waters of the Mississippi Sound for the purpose of constructing and erecting an artificial island, with hotels, boulevards, and. residences for the private purposes of the appellants; that the appellants had procured from the land commissioner of the state of…