Marine Railway & Coal Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. Error to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia which affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of the United States in a suit brought by the United States to recover a strip of made land on the Potomac River.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. Error to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia which affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of the United States in a suit brought by the United States to recover a strip of made land on the Potomac River. In Maryland v. West Virginia, 217 U. S. 1, 517, this court recognized that the arbitration and award established the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland, to be the true boundary line between said States, agreeably to the Compact of 1785. And see Wharton v. Wise, 153…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a suit brought by the United States in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to recover possession of a strip of land on the Potomac River front of the City of Alexandria. • Except an insignificant portion as to which no speci'al defence was made and which it is agreed may be disregarded, this strip lay below low water mark until it ivas filled in by the United States in 1910-1912 by dredging from the bottom of the river and depositing the material on the other side of a riprap wall built oii'the river bed. Act of June 25, 1910, c. 382, 36 Stat. 630, 639. Act of February 27,…
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