Bathport Building, Inc. v. Berry

SCOLNIK, Justice.

This is a dispute over title to two small strips of land on the west bank of the Kennebec River in the City of Bath, to the north and south respectively of a parcel indisputably owned by Defendant Berry and leased to Defendant Longreach Company (Longreach).1 The disputed parcels *664were once entirely under water and were used as slips by boats docking at a wharf that is now the Berry/Longreach land. They were mostly filled in by Berry. Though he and Longreach have possessed and used the parcels almost exclusively since the early 1950’s, the plaintiffs contend that they own the…