Warren v. Clark

During World War I the Dierks-Blodgett Shipbuilding Company acquired a parcel of land in the City of Pascagoula. The western boundary of the land was the East Pascagoula River. The shipbuilding company dredged a canal or slip from the river east about a thousand feet, more or less. The slip was about 200 feet wide, *876but the end toward the river was wider. A wharf was built along the south side of the slip from a point some distance out into the river eastward about 700 feet. This wharf extended out from the south bank into the slip about 20 or 30 feet. Ways were constructed on that part of the…