Mayor and City Council v. Crown Cork & Seal Co.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to settle the oound-ary lines of the riparian rights of the owners of certain lands fronting on the northeast shore of the Patapsco River for two miles between Colgate Creek and Bear Creek in the harbor of the City of Baltimore. At the northern end of the area the City owns a tract of land upon which it has built an airport, still in course of development, that covers not only fast land inside the original shore line, but also filled land and improvements in the waters of the river. A controversy has arisen between the City and the Mutual Chemical…