Crooks v. State, Department of Natural Resources

DECUIR, Judge.

|, This class action lawsuit was filed by the named plaintiffs, Steve and Era Crooks, against the State of Louisiana, Department of Natural Resources, seeking a determination of the ownership of the lands located in the Catahoula Basin, commonly referred to as Catahoula Lake. The determinative issue in the case is the legal classification of Catahoula Lake as a lake or as a river or stream. The trial court granted the State’s motion for partial summary judgment on this issue and rendered the following oral ruling:

For oral reasons this day handed down, the Court finds that…