United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Dempster

The appeal in this case is from the issue by the Land Office of a patent to the bed of Mercer Street in Baltimore City, extending from Calvert Street one half block west to Grant Street, The United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company has buildings on each side of the street at that point connected by a tunnel under the street surfa.ee, built by authority of the city, and the company and the city have joined as caveators and appellants.

The patent was granted upon the supposition that the land had escheated to the State upon the death of a former-owner, George Salmon* in 1807, without having…