POTOMAC STEAMBOAT CO. v. UPPER POT. S. CO.


109 U.S. 672 (1884)

POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANY & Others v. UPPER POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANY. POTOMAC STEAMBOAT COMPANY v. INLAND AND SEABOARD COASTING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7th, 1884.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Conway Robinson and Mr. John Selden for the appellants.

Mr. William Birney and Mr. Nathaniel Wilson for the appellees.


MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

These two cases were heard together in the court below and in this court. They involve the same questions and depend upon facts substantially the same, appearing in a single record.

The claim of the appellants, who were plaintiffs below, is that, being owners and in possession, in the first case, of square No. 472, and, in the second, of lot No. 13 in square No. 504, on the plan of the city of Washington...

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