Slattery v. Arkansas Natural Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Action by J. B. Slattery against the Arkansas Natural Gas Company and others. From judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiff, claiming under a patent (issued by the United States in 1840) to the N. fractional % of section 15, township 19, range 15, containing 239.73 acres, asserts title to a body of reclaimed land, of indefinite area, which at one time constituted, in part, the bed of Sodo (or “Sodor”) Lake, in the parish of Caddo. He alleges that the lake at the time of the issuance of the patent was a navigable body of water, though he describes it *795as a “navigable running stream,” and his first contention is that the United) States owned the land lying beneath it, and…
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