Braisted v. Denton

THOMAS, District Judge.

This action is brought to recover for storing vessels in libelant’s slip or basin. The libelant on July 6, 1893, became the owner in fee of certain land situate in the town of Flatlands, on Jamaica Bay, and more particularly described in the deed executed by Bernard J. York, as referee, to Garrett S. Braisted, and recorded in the register’s office of the. county of Kings, in Liber 2187 of conveyances, at page 46. Thereafter the libelant applied to the commissioners of the land office, and received from them a grant of land under water in front of and adjoining his…