Evans v. Stinchcomb

In litigation between owners of two adjoining parcels of land on Gingerville Creek, South River, Anne Arundel County, the chancellor enjoined the owner of one, Evans, from planting oysters so close to the Stinchcomb shore line as to interfere with the Stinchcombs’ use of it for bathing and boating. A later application for an attachment of Evans for violation of the injunction was rejected, and the chancellor made the injunction more definite for the future by prescribing the exact depth of water that the defendant might use. The defendant objects to the procedure by which the change was made,…