Prosser v. Northern Pacific Railroad

Citations

• 152 U.S. 59
• 14 S. Ct. 528
• 38 L. Ed. 352
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2091

Syllabus

<p>A railroad corporation, which has laid out, built and maintained its railroad for two miles along the shore of a harbor, below high water mark, claiming under its charter the right to do so' and the ownership of adjacent lands under tide waters of the harbor, cannot maintain a bill in equity to restrain a board of commissioners from establishing, pursuant to statutes of the State, a general system of harbor lines in the harbor, and from'filing a plan thereof:</p>