Arness v. Petersburg Packing Co.

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

In an action of ejectment in the court below, the defendants in error recovered a judgment for the possession of a small parcel of tideland adjacent to a steamship dock and a cannery which they occupied and operated; they having alleged in their complaint that they had used and occupied the parcel in controversy, had cleared it of boulders and débris, and made it fit for the purpose of storing logs, pilings, pile drivers, and water craft thereon, and had maintained cradles thereon to repair their boats and scows, and that at midnight December 7, 1915, without their…