Chappell v. Waterworth
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
At Law. Ej'ectment. “This is an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover the possession of the site of Hawkins Point Light-House, situated in the Patapsco river, the same being one of the range lights of Brewerton channel. The defendant is the keeper of said light-house, he having been appointed in conformity with the acts of congress by the light-house board.
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At Law. Ej'ectment. “This is an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover the possession of the site of Hawkins Point Light-House, situated in the Patapsco river, the same being one of the range lights of Brewerton channel. The defendant is the keeper of said light-house, he having been appointed in conformity with the acts of congress by the light-house board. The suit was instituted in the circuit court for Anne Arundel county, and under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1887, e. 373, was removed to the circuit court of the United States for the…
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
The brief filed by the learned district attorney correctly states the case made by the pleadings, and his full citations from decisions of the supreme court applicable to the question raised make it unnecessary to quote them in this opinion.
The plaintiff by this action of ejectment seeks to dispossess the United States of a light-house built by the United States light-house board in the year 1868, under authority of congress. It is erected upon piles in *87the waters of the Patapsco river, where the tide ebbs and flows, at the distance of about 210 feet from the shore, and it is one of the range…
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