McDade v. Caplis

Plaintiff, in February, 1904, purchased from Samuel J. Smith a tract ot land containing 1,386 acres in sections 21, 22, and 27, township 16, range 12, Bossier parish, known as the “Magenta Plantation.”

This land lay adjacent to a shallow lake, *1021known as “Half Moon Lake,” in section 22. The lake had been meandered by the government, and the various tracts had been sold off as fractional sections and quarter sections, etc., which had come, through mesne conveyances, into the possession of said Smith.

Many years after the governmental survey and the sale of the adjacent lands, the Bossier levee…