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DEP'T OF NATURAL RESOURCES v. FRANCE

[No. 90, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 432 (1976)

357 A.2d 78

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES v. FRANCE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren K. Rich, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Henry R. Lord, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for appellant.

No brief filed on behalf of appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.

O'DONNELL, J.,* delivered the opinion of the Court. SMITH, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 465 infra. Wicomico River, or whether it is fixed by the thalweg of the channel of the Wicomico River, located southward of its geographic center line.

The factual posture in which this boundary dispute arose involved the dredging of oysters, by the use of patent tongs, upon two...

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