MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL v. CROWN CORK & SEAL CO.

No. 4804.

122 F.2d 385 (1941)

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. CROWN CORK & SEAL CO., Inc., et al. (UNITED STATES, Intervenor).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

August 19, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson K. Barnes and Allen A. Davis, both of Baltimore, Md. (Charles C. G. Evans, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellant.

L. Vernon Miller and Philip B. Perlman, both of Baltimore, Md. (Jesse Slingluff, Jr., Hershey, Donaldson, Williams & Stanley, Addison E. Mullikin, Frank C. Wachter, and Mullikin, Stockbridge & Waters, all of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOPER, DOBIE, and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to settle the boundary lines of the riparian rights of the owners of certain lands fronting on the northeast shore of the Patapsco River for two miles between Colgate Creek and Bear Creek in the harbor of the City of Baltimore. At the northern end of the area the City owns a tract of land upon which it has built an airport, still in course of development, that covers not only fast land inside the original shore line, but...

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