Wheatley v. Consolidated Lumber Co.

San Pedro is an incorporated city possessing a water frontage upon the harbor of the same name. To the south of San Pedro is the incorporated city of Long Beach. Between the two was a strip of upland not within the corporate limits of either town. This upland has an ocean frontage. When the United States government became active in its work of developing the harbor of San Pedro the two municipalities became inspired with the same idea-—that of annexing the upland referred to and a part of the contiguous territory under the waters of the ocean. A petition for the annexation of this territory…