President of the Delaware & Maryland Rail Road v. Stump
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Chancery, from an order granting an injunction, and an order refusing to dissolve it on motion, under the act of 1835, ch. 340. On the 13th September, 1836, John Stump, of Cedi county, by his bill complained, that his father was seized and possessed in fee, under a patent of the state, of a valuable tract of land at the mouth of the Susquehanna river, and established upwards of twenty years, certain fisheries thereon, and at which large quantities of shad and…
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Appeal from Chancery, from an order granting an injunction, and an order refusing to dissolve it on motion, under the act of 1835, ch. 340. On the 13th September, 1836, John Stump, of Cedi county, by his bill complained, that his father was seized and possessed in fee, under a patent of the state, of a valuable tract of land at the mouth of the Susquehanna river, and established upwards of twenty years, certain fisheries thereon, and at which large quantities of shad and herring were annually taken by seines hauled over certain portions of said river; that complainant is the devisee of said…
1Opinion of the CourtSpence, Judge
The complainant in his bill charges, that heretofore John Stump, the father of this complainant, being seized in fee under grant by patent from the state of Maryland, of a tract of land called Perry Point, situate in Cecil county, at the mouth of the Susquehanna river, established upwards of twenty years since certain fisheries on said property, and at which by means of seines hauled over certain portions of said river, large quantities of shad and herring were annually taken.
That afterwards the said John Stump departed this life, having by his last will and testament executed in form and…
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