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Potomac Steamboat Co. Vs. Upper Potomac Steamboat Co.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 07, 1884

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  1. Yates Vs. Milwaukee US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1870
  2. Barney Vs. Keokuk US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1876
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  3. Dutton Vs. Strong US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1861
  4. Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper
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  5. Potomac Steamboat Co. - 109 U.S. 672 (1884) U.S. Supreme Court Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper
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  6. Potomac Steamboat Co., 109 U.S. 672 (1884) Potomac Steamboat Company v. Upper
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  7. in the United States the title in fee simple to the other tract and to the strip known as Water Street. Van Ness v. The
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  8. them when it would have been admissible if they had been formal conveyances. 5. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Union
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  9. on the point involved in this case. Insofar as in conflict with it, the court in that case did not follow Van Ness v. Mayor
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  10. of Washington, 4 Pet. 232, or Kennedy v. Washington
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  11. Page 109 U. S. 675 The nature and extent of this compact were considered by this Court in Georgetown v. Alexandria
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  12. the whole space south of the line of the lots was intended to be the property and for the use of the public. Barclay v. Howell's
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  13. Lessees, 6 Pet. 498. In Rowan's Ex'rs v. Portland
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  14. out and the Potomac River. The very point as to the nature of this title was decided in the case of Van Ness v. The
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  15. evidence to contradict, vary, or explain them is no more to be admitted than if they were formal conveyances. Williams v. Ingell
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  16. squares and lots lying north of the street, it may be said of the wharfage right claimed, as was said in Linthicum v. Ray
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  17. A riparian proprietor, in the language of MR. JUSTICE MILLER in Yates v. Milwaukee
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  18. Weber v. Harbor
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  19. hold the lands to low water mark, so that he does not hold more than one hundred rods below high water mark, Storer v. Freeman
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  20. Commonwealth v. Charlestown
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  21. way adjoined the sea shore, the ordinance did not pass the flats on the other side of the way to the grantee. Codman v. Winslow
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  22. was decided that a grantee, bounded by high water mark, is not a riparian proprietor, nor within the ordinance. Lapish v. Bangor
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  23. Stevenson v. Paterson
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  24. Keyport Steamboat Co. v. Farmers'
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  25. Rowan's Ex'rs v. Portland
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  26. Lord Cairns in Lyon v. Fishmonger's
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  27. said Pollock, C.B., in Stockport Waterworks Co. v. Potter
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  28. riparian right of the grantee because the land has been granted for a street. On the contrary, as was said in Barney v. Keokuk
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  29. a highway, in contradistinction to the exclusive right of one claiming riparian rights as owner of the soil. Godfrey v. City
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  30. said this Court in New Orleans v. United
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  31. own use, and not in trust for any person or for any purpose. In that respect, the case differs from Railroad Company v. Schurmeir
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  32. to place it in that situation, or that, in fact it had not been used as such for a long period of time. Barclay v. Howell's
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  33. Boston v. Lecraw
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  34. McMurray v. Baltimore
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  35. held to authorize the improvements therein spoken of, to be made by improvers in front of their own lots only. Dugan v. Baltimore
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  36. Wilson v. Inloes
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  37. with water, but a right of occupation merely, properly termed a franchise, as said by Hosmer, C.J., in East Haven v. Hemingway
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  38. for land cannot be appurtenant to land. Harris v. Elliott
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  39. Storer v. Freeman
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  40. Commonwealth v. Alger
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  41. to give statutory sanction to an exception from the general rule. The same comment applies to the case of Hazlehurst v. Baltimore
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  42. and to prevent private monopoly of the landing places for trade and commerce. For, as was said in Dutton v. Strong
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  43. it to private use. It was for this reason held by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, in the case of Rowan's Ex'rs v. Portland
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  44. of any private right of the same character. To the same effect is the judgment of the same court in Newport v. Taylor's
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  45. rely upon the decision of the former Circuit Court for this district in the case of Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Union
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  46. proprietor, but gave no reasons for its opinion. No allusion was made by counsel or court to the case of Van Ness v. Mayor
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  47. involved. The question of wharfage had been before the same court in another form in 1829, in the case of Kennedy v. Corporation
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  48. the whole land, it will be presumed that they did it, and that this was their mode of doing it. The cases of Doane v. Broad
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  49. Street Association, 6 Mass. 332, and Hathaway v. Wilson
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  50. the United States. This view of the matter was taken by Judge Cranch in the case of Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Union
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