Browne v. Kennedy
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appear from Baltimore county court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Cole’s Harbour. The defendant in the court below, (now the appellee,) took defence on warrant, and plots were made. At the trial of the cause it was agreed between the parties, that on the 1st of June 1700, a tract of land called Todd’s Range was granted to James-Todd, for 510 acres, being a resurvey on a tract called Cole’s Harbour, granted to Thomas Cole the 17th of November 1668, for 550 acres.
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Appear from Baltimore county court. Ejectment for a tract of land called Cole’s Harbour. The defendant in the court below, (now the appellee,) took defence on warrant, and plots were made. At the trial of the cause it was agreed between the parties, that on the 1st of June 1700, a tract of land called Todd’s Range was granted to James-Todd, for 510 acres, being a resurvey on a tract called Cole’s Harbour, granted to Thomas Cole the 17th of November 1668, for 550 acres. This grant, according to its true location, included within its lines all the land described and granted in and by the two…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, Ch. J.
I am of opinion, that the lessors of the plaintiff' have a right to recover the land in question to the taiiddle bed of Jones’s Falls', that Charles Carroll having title to the lands in question, and all rights, privileges and advantages, derivable therefrom, did, by his two deeds to William Lyon and Alexander Lawson, convey the same to them, and thereby did divest himself of all right and interest in the same.
Charles Carroll, prior to the said deeds, holding the said lands on both sides of Jones’s Palls, had the right, privu lege, and advantage of accretion by alluvion, or by…
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