Steinem v. Romney

This is an appeal by Lester H. Steinem and his wife, defendants below, from a decree of the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County which declared that title to a sandbar in the Patuxent River is vested in the plaintiffs-appellees, Dorothy C. Romney, Oran R. Wilkerson and his wife, and John F. Gross and his wife, and which granted other relief. In a previous appeal by the plantiffs we held that this suit was properly cognizable in equity. See Romney v. Steinem, 228 Md. 605, 180 A. 2d 873 (1962).

In 1918 the appellees, John F. Gross and wife, acquired a tract of land known as “Kingston”, containing…