Legal Opinion
Sullivan Timber Co. v. City of Mobile
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama
Decided August 1, 1903No. 227PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
The complainant is the owner and in possession of the lands in front of which lies the land for the recovery of which the city of Mobile has sued in ejectment. Complainant’s said land on the west side of Mobile river is bounded on the east by said river, and its land on the east side of said river is bounded on the west by the river. ■>
*645The land in litigation with which we are here concerned is that which was the shore under Mobile river on January 31, 1867. The legal title to this land is in the city of Mobile by virtue of an act of the Legislature of Alabama of…
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