Department of Natural Resources v. France

0’Donnell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. Smith, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 465 infra.

In this case, we are called upon, for the purpose of venue, to locate the boundary line between two counties separated by a navigable river; at issue is whether the boundary line between Wicomico and Somerset Counties, at the confluence of the Wicomico and Nanticoke Rivers, runs along the mid-point of the geographic center of the water area of the *434Wicomico River, or whether it is fixed by the thalweg of the channel of the Wicomico River, located southward of its geographic…