McGlothlin v. City of Shreveport

In 1812 Cross Lake, in Caddo parish, was a body of navigable water, whose ordinary high-water mark was 172 feet above mean Gulf level. This lake and the bed thereof became the property of the state of Louisiana upon her admission into the Union in that year. State v. Bozeman, 156 La. 635, 101 So. 4.

In time, and for reasons set forth in the case just cited, this lake went dry; and the bed of the lake, below the 172 feet above mean Gulf level, thereupon became public land belonging to the state.

Thereupon many individuals gradually entered upon, and took possession of, portions of the former bed…