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MARINE RY. & COAL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 45.

257 U.S. 47 (1921)

MARINE RAILWAY & COAL COMPANY, INC. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 7, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James R. Caton for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Henry H. Glassie, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Frierson and Mr. Leslie C. Garnett, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit brought by the United States in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to recover possession of a strip of land on the Potomac River front of the City of Alexandria. Except an insignificant portion as to which no special defence was made and which it is agreed may be disregarded, this strip lay below low water mark until it was filled in by the United...

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