Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. v. Ministers of the Starr M. P. Church

The Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company, appellant, has been the owner and lessee of wharf property on the Patapsoo River, in the right angle formed by the southern extremity of Pratt Street with the eastern boundary of Light Street, for a great number of years. The wharf running along the south side of Pratt Street and the wharf running along the east side of Light Street were in the navigable waters of the Basin, which formerly covered the beds of the two streets and all the land here in controversy, which the respective parties on this appeal derived from a common grantor. The…