Blake v. United States

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In three actions consolidated for trial, libellants seek damages for the alleged taking, without compensation, of certain oyster grounds in the lower York River between Tue Marshes Light and Gloucester Point, and for the unlawful removal of stakes and buoys delineating the boundaries of the leaseholds; said oyster grounds having been lawfully leased by libellants, or their predecessors in title, from the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The area in controversy is in the immediate vicinity of Yorktown, Virginia, where, on the south side of the York River, the Naval…