Mintzer v. North American Dredging Co.
District Court, N.D. California
In Equity. Suit by Lucio M. Mintzer and others against the North American Dredging Company, in which the City of Richmond intervened. Decree for plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN FLEET, District Judge.
This is a bill to enjoin the defendant from further proceeding to dredge out and deepen a certain waterway or channel traversing lands alleged to belong to the plaintiffs’ testator, and from carrying away the earth or soil therefrom, as constituting a willful and malicious trespass and waste, and to recover damages for the waste and injury already done.
The answer of the defendant denies any ownership or right of any kind in the plaintiffs in the land involved, and sets up that the channel in question is “known and designated as the south channel of the San Pablo…
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