Gore v. Todd

The appellants filed an application with the Commissioner-of the Land Office for a survey and grant of certain land which they alleged to be vacant and described as “all that part of an island, called ‘Middle Island’ or ‘Adams Island/' which is not included within the deed from Clarence T. Todd and wife to Euth E. Moore, dated the 27th day of September, 1924, and recorded in Liber J. F .D. Ho. 15, page 325, one of the land records of Dorchester County. Said island lies between the Chesapeake Bay on the west and Holland Straits on the east, and lies immediately south of the west end of Billy’s…