Manufacturers' Land & Improvement Co. v. Board of Commerce & Navigation & Southwark Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

Prosecutor is the owner of a tract of land in Camden, bordering on the east side of the Delaware river, and claims the usual rights of a riparian owner under the laws of this state. Adjoining prosecutor’s lands on the south are lands of the Southwark Manufacturing Company, and adjoining that company’s land on the south, and bounded southerly by the north line of Jefferson street, actual or produced, is a tract belonging to the Armstrong Cork Company. *639Both these companies hold under the prosecutor, directly or by mesne conveyances.

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