Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co. v. State

JANVIER, Justice ad hoc.

As a result of the decree rendered by this Court on July 1, 1935, in the matter entitled State of Louisiana v. Jefferson Island Salt Mining Co., Inc., 183 La. 304, 163 So. 145, the State of Louisiana, on March 30, 1936, recovered from the said Salt Mining Company $1,427,826.51. That suit originated in the Sixteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Iberia. This amount was recovered because, as was held in that case, the said Company had illegally mined and removed from beneath the bed of Lake Peigneur in Iberia Parish certain quantities of salt and had sold…