Sullivan v. Moreno
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia county. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Westcott: James H. Moreno, through his bill in chancery against Daniel F. Sullivan filed on the 8th day of March, A. D. 1882, alleges that “ Francisco Moreno for more than thirty years has owned and possessed the parcels of land lying on the bay of Pensacola, between Barracks street and Adams street in the city of Pensacola, the said Moreno having been for all…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia county. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Westcott: James H. Moreno, through his bill in chancery against Daniel F. Sullivan filed on the 8th day of March, A. D. 1882, alleges that “ Francisco Moreno for more than thirty years has owned and possessed the parcels of land lying on the bay of Pensacola, between Barracks street and Adams street in the city of Pensacola, the said Moreno having been for all that time in quiet possession and enjoyment of all the rights of a riparian owner until the defendant and others, without…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Westcott
From the preceding very full statement of this case it will be seen that it is one in which the plaintiff, as an alleged riparian proprietor, seeks to enjoin the defendant.from constructing a wharf and from depositing stone, sand and other material immediately in front of property alleged to be his, and, we presume, between it and “ the edge of the channel ” of the bay of Pensacola.
Anterior to the act of 1856, Chapter 791, Laws of this State, the title to the soil of navigable tide waters to the line of ordinary high tides was in the State of Florida, subject to the power’s of Congress in the…
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