State v. Sargent & Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition in the name of the State, .by the board of harbor commissioners for New Haven harbor, to the Superior Court, for an injunction restraining the defendants, a corporation, from constructing a wharf or other structure from their own land into the harbor, beyond a certain limit, without the approval of the harbor commissioners.
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Petition in the name of the State, .by the board of harbor commissioners for New Haven harbor, to the Superior Court, for an injunction restraining the defendants, a corporation, from constructing a wharf or other structure from their own land into the harbor, beyond a certain limit, without the approval of the harbor commissioners. The following facts were found by the court:— The board of harbor commissioners for New Haven harbor was organized in October, 1872, under the act of the General Assembly of June 27th, 1872, and, when the present suit was brought, was composed of the persons named…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
By the common law as it stood long before the coming of our ancestors to this country and the settlement of the colony of New Haven, the king, as parens patriae, held the title to the soil under the sea between high and low water max-k; he held it not for his owxx benefit but for his subjects at large, and for the subjects of all states at peace with him; he held it in trust for public uses, established by ancient custom or x’egulated by law, the most important of which are those of fishing axxd navigation. In 1662 Charles II granted all the lands of the colony by charter to the freemen…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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