Chamberlain v. Northeastern R. R.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Fraser, J., Charleston, December, 1892. Action by D. H. Chamberlain^ as receiver of the New York and Charleston Warehouse and Steam Navigation Company, and the company itself, against the Northeastern Railroad Company. The South Carolina Railroad Company, under whom plaintiff claimed, agreed with A.Y.
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Before Fraser, J., Charleston, December, 1892. Action by D. H. Chamberlain^ as receiver of the New York and Charleston Warehouse and Steam Navigation Company, and the company itself, against the Northeastern Railroad Company. The South Carolina Railroad Company, under whom plaintiff claimed, agreed with A.Y. Toomer to purchase a body of marsh land, but finding that others also claimed title to the land, it instituted condemnation proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas after notice to the several claimants. Commissioners were appointed, who appraised the land at $10,000, and made return of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
This is an action for the recovery of possession of one and one-quarter acres of real estate, being *401part of a strip of marsh land upon the bank of a navigable stream, with its eastern boundary on Cooper Biver, called at that point “Town Creek,” and constituting part of the wharf front of the city of Charleston.
The complaint, among other things, stated “that on and before April 8th, 1891, the New York and Charleston Warehouse and Steam Navigation Company was lawfully seized as owner in fee simple of all that parcel of marsh land,…
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