Greenleaf Johnson Lumber Co. v. Garrison
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the right of the owners of a wharf erected under state authority in navigable waters of the United States to compensation on the taking thereof by the United States, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit for injunction by appellant, which we shall call complainant, brought originally against Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War and Robert Shaw Oliver as Assistant *255Secretary of War, for whom the appellees were substituted and whom we shall refer to as defendants, to enjoin them and all persons acting under their authority from taking or removing or in any way interfering with complainant’s wharf or other property "along or upon the water front of its said property upon the southern branch of the Elizabeth river” in the State of Virginia. It having been constructed, it is alleged, under the…
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