Chappell v. Waterworth
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR 'fO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. This was an action of ejectment, brought December 23, 1887, by Thomas C. Chappell against James M. Waterworth, both citizens of Maryland, in the Circuit Court for the fifth judicial circuit of the State of Maryland.
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ERROR 'fO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. This was an action of ejectment, brought December 23, 1887, by Thomas C. Chappell against James M. Waterworth, both citizens of Maryland, in the Circuit Court for the fifth judicial circuit of the State of Maryland. The declaration alleged that on January 1,1878, the plaintiff was in possession of a parcel of land, partly above and partly below high-water mark, extending from Hawkins Point lighthouse on the west side of the Patapsco River in Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland to the Brewerton channel, in…
1Opinion of the Court
‘Mr. Justice Gray,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The question presented by the pleadings, considered in the opinion below, and argued at the bar, cannot be decided upon this record, because the case was removed into the Circuit Court of the United States • without authority of law. The question of removal is governed bv the. decision of this court at the last term in Tennessee v. Bank of Commerce, 152 U. S. 454, by which, upon full consideration, it was adjudged that under the acts of March 3, 1887, c. 373, (24 Stat. 552,) and August-13, 1888, c. 866, (25 Stat.…
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