Columbia National Sand Dredging Co. v. Morton
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
HeaeiNG on the question of tbe jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court, to entertain a bill for an injunction and to pass a decree perpetuating a preliminary injunction against acts of continued trespass on land in Maryland; which question was raised by this court when am appeal by the defendants from such decree was reached for hearing.
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HeaeiNG on the question of tbe jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court, to entertain a bill for an injunction and to pass a decree perpetuating a preliminary injunction against acts of continued trespass on land in Maryland; which question was raised by this court when am appeal by the defendants from such decree was reached for hearing. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a decree perpetuating an injunction against acts of continued trespass upon land. George B. Morton, a resident and citizen of Prince…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
It is plain, from the allegations of the bill and answer, that the necessary question to be determined in the suit is whether George B. Morton has title to the sand and gravel bar lying wholly within the State of Maryland, either by deed conveying the title to the middle line of Piscataway creek, or, in case the boundary of the land conveyed thereby shall be confined to the shore of said creek, as an accretion to his land upon the shore. This is not only the principal, but substantially the only, question involved.
It is to the principal question involved in any case that we look to determine…
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