Rocky Point Oyster Co. v. Standard Oil Co.
District Court, D. Rhode Island
At Law. Action by the Rocky Point Oyster Company, Incorporated, against the Standard Oil Company of New York. On demurrers to and motions to strike out.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The plaintiff asserts title and rights of occupancy of tide-flowed lands in Providence river and Narragansett Bay as a private and several oyster fishery for the planting and cultivation of oysters, and charges the defendant with violation of its rights, and with causing damage to its oyster beds and oysters through dredging and other operations, whereby mud, sand, and other suN stances were discharged over and deposited on plaintiff’s oyster beds and oysters.
In the first and third counts of the declaration the plaintiff alleges title under léase for the period of 10…
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