United States v. Herbert Bryant, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CORCORAN, District Judge.

The United States has filed this suit 1 to quiet title to all fast and submerged lands “in Virginia or the District of Columbia” 2 that lie along the waterfront of the City of Alexandria, roughly from Gibbon Street on the south to Slater’s Lane on the north, and from the Potomac River on the east to “the January 24, 1791, high water mark of the Potomac River” 3 on the west.

There are some 35 defendants who are the record owners, or interest holders, of such lands. 4

This Court's jurisdiction is premised upon 28 U.S.C. § 1345 (1970); the Act of April…