Bradley v. Cornwall

Neighbors at Shady Side on the south shore of West River are here contesting over a narrow strip of waterfront land.

For clarity the diagram below is included, as it reproduces a portion of a plat prepared in 1925 by Edward Hall, Jr., surveyor. The plat is recorded among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County and all the deeds pertinent to this case make reference to it.

The precise subject matter of the controversy is the strip bounded on the north by the water’s edge and on the south by the northernmost line of lots 3 and 4. Not involved in the dispute is any land west of lot 4 or its…