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YESLER v. WASHINGTON HARBOR LINE COMM'RS.

No. 912.

146 U.S. 646 (1892)

13 S.Ct. 190

36 L.Ed. 1119

YESLER, v. WASHINGTON HARBOR LINE COMMISSIONERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 19, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas R. Shepard and Mr. A.H. Garland for plaintiff in error. Mr. Andrew F. Burleigh and Mr. Charles E. Shepard were on Mr. Shepard's brief.

Mr. W.C. Jones, Attorney General of the State of Washington, for defendants in error.

Mr. John H. Mitchell and Mr. Beriah Brown, Jr., filed a brief for Baer, intervenor.

Mr. T.N. McPherson and Mr. Edwin B. Smith, counsel for plaintiff in error in No. 639, filed a brief, by leave of court.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The averment in relator's petition is that "he is now and has been for thirty years last past the owner of the following-described property, to wit, the property commonly known as Yesler's wharf and dock and the upland abutting on the shore upon which said wharf and dock were constructed." It is said in argument that he is an original patentee of the United States, under the "Donation...

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