Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper Potomac Steamboat Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Bill in equity to restrain the defendants below, who are the appellees in this court, from constructing piers and docks on the Potomac, at the city of Washington. The plaintiffs, being in possession of a tract of land bounded by Water street, which was on the margin of the river, claimed that the riparian rights on the side of the street opposite to their tract attached to it.
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APPEALS PROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Bill in equity to restrain the defendants below, who are the appellees in this court, from constructing piers and docks on the Potomac, at the city of Washington. The plaintiffs, being in possession of a tract of land bounded by Water street, which was on the margin of the river, claimed that the riparian rights on the side of the street opposite to their tract attached to it. The defendants denied the plaintiffs’ title to such riparian rights, and justified their own acts under a license from the commissioners of the District of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
These two cases were heard together in the court below and in this court. They involve the same questions and depend upon, facts substantially the same, appearing in a single record.
The claim of the appellants, who were plaintiffs below, is that, being owners and in possession, in the first case, of square No. 472, and, in the second, of lot No. 13 in square No. 504, on the plan of the city of "Washington, they are entitled to the •exclusive right to make aiid use wharves and other similar improvements in the Potomac River opposite or in front' of these lots, which are separated from it by…
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