Ranstead v. The Wm. H. Brinsfield
District Court, D. Maryland
In Admiralty. Libel in rem for wharfage by Lyman T. Ranstead against the schooner William H. Brinsñeld, a foreign vessel.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
The libelant is the owner of a wharf fronting 100 feet on a dock made by deepening a canal into tho waters of a branch of the Patapsco river, adjoining South Baltimore. This dock is somewhat remote from the customary harbor for vessels in the port of Baltimore, and was constructed by private individual enterprise. The riparian owner of a piece of partially submerged land bordering on a widening of the river, by digging out a canal, and building up its sidos, constructed a basin about 100 feet wide, and from 500 to 1,000 feet long, with a street of the city at right angles to its length…
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