Manchester v. Point Street Iron Works

Durfee, c. J.

This is trespass and ejectment for the recovery of certain land on the west side of Providence River, formerly tide-flowed and lying within a harbor line. The plaintiff claims the land by virtue of his riparian right, as an up land owner, under the rule for the apportionment of water fronts laid down in Aborn v. Smith, 12 R. I. 370, namely, that the dividing line is to be drawn from the point where the dividing line of the upland meets the shore, perpendicularly to the harbor line. The defendant corporation, which or the ancestor in title of which filled in the land and has…