Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Chase
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellees against the appellant. The plaintiffs, assuming that they were entitled to a portion of the accretion in front of their lot, No. 27, and the water, advanced five different methods of laying out the same.
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This was an action of ejectment brought by the appellees against the appellant. The plaintiffs, assuming that they were entitled to a portion of the accretion in front of their lot, No. 27, and the water, advanced five different methods of laying out the same. They first proposed that-a straight line should be drawn from the extremities of the old shore line, and straight lines should be drawn perpendicularly to this line from the termini of the original water front of lot No. 27, and that these perpendicular lines should be thence extended until they…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
The property in controversy in this case is situate on the Patapsco river, and • within the limits of the city of Baltimore, at what is now called Locust Point, the eastern terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
By the Acts of 1180, chapter 45, and 1181, chapter 31, commonly known as the confiscation Acts, the real estate of the Principio Company, situate on what was then called Whetstone Point,"on the Patapsco river, was seised and confiscated by the State, as property belonging to British subjects, and which estate, with certain exceptions and reservations, was divided into lots and…
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