McCloskey v. Pacific Coast Co.

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in this case is taken from an order of the court below granting a temporary injunction upon a bill in equity, the answer thereto, and the testimony and proofs of the respective parties. The bill was brought to enjoin the appellant from erecting a structure on tide lands in front of property of the appellee, fronting on Gastineaux Channel, an arm of the North Pacific Ocean in Alaska, the appellee alleging that, as a littoral owner of lands abutting the shore of the sea, it was entitled to free access to and from the navigable waters fronting thereon. The…