State Ex Rel. Rice v. Stewart

This is an appeal from a final decree of the chancery court of Harrison County, Mississippi, sustaining a general demurrer of all of the appellees and a sub-joined plea of res adjudicata interposed by the appellee, Mrs. Grace Jones Stewart, to the bill of complaint filed by appellant.

Among other things, the bill of complaint charged that Bayou Bernard in Harrison County, Mississippi, an inlet of the Mississippi Sound, is a navigable body of water and has at all times been such from the time of the admission of the State of Mississippi as a State into the Union, and has at all times been…