Board of Shellfish Commissioners v. Mansfield

The principal questions involved in this appeal have been decided in the case of Cox v. Revelle, ante p. 579. This proceeding originated in a petition filed under the Act of 1914, Chapter 265, in the Circuit Court for Talbot County, praying that certain oyster ground in Miles River, which had been previously leased to a private individual upon the theory that it was barren bottom, might be judicially determined to be a natural bed or bar, as the result of which find ing it would be subject to acquisition for public use by condemnation as provided in the statute. The lessee, though summoned,…