Daily Republican., 1881-06-07
who owns Marsh Lane 2

IDENTIFY exists between the River From
Committee and the Jackson and SharI
Company in reference to the proprietor
ship of the Marsh Lane leading from
the P, w. & B. railroad to the Brandy
wine marshes. The Committee is NOV
ing in the matter upon the assumpsi
that the Marsh Lane is an extension OF
Seventh street and that like other
streets it has been regularly condemn.
ed aed conveyed to the city for the pur-
pose of highway.
Mr.. jackson of the Jackson & Sharp
Company disputes these premises of the
Committee, and denies that the road
has ever beeu condemned by commits
sion and conveyed to the City, and Mr.
Jackson in the dispute seems to have
the strong end of the argument, as no
record can be found in the archives of
the city, Of Marsh Lane ever having
been condemned and conveyed to the
City, If Marsh Lane belongs to the
City there Should be some record of il
somewhere, and without this record be-
ing produced and the ownership of the
lane being fully established, Council
could hardly expect to be allowed to
open the road through such a valuable
manufacturing property as is owned by
the jackson & Sharp Company without
being compelled to pay damages COM
mensurate with the injury inflicted.
The Brandywine marsh contains
nlnety-two acres of marsh LAND lying in
cove or peninsula made by the Chris
tiana and Brandywine rivers. 1t was
and we believe is still owned by some
seven or eight persons. The only way
to reach this land except by water is by
way of the small neck of land between
the two rivers upon which the jackson
4 Sharp works stand.
The records show that David C. Will |
son, deceased, owned that part of the
land which made this neck and through
which the Marsh Lane runs. OF course
the other owners farther down in the
cove had to have road to their pro.
perty and permission was allowed them
to pass through the first part to reach
the other This we are informed is the
origin of the Marsh Lane, a lane which
it appears has never become public
property because it was never condemn
ed. The jackson g. Sharp Company
have bought the part of the marsh that
David G. Wilson owned with all rights
privileges and appurtenances. With
they contend that they bought this
lane now in dispute and which bids
fair to be the source of ofendless litigation
If the City insists on opening Seventh l
street to the point where it intersects
the Brandywine
The writer in yesterdays Morning
News may be well posted, but our in
formants who may he equally as well
posted say there is no record of Mr.
Wilson ever having set apart Marsh
Lane for public use forever. Without
This record, there can be no doubt that
the Jackson g. Sharp Company have a
valid claim to all, including the lane, l
that formerly was the property of d. +
J. Wilson. The City Council was posi- !
lively notified by Mr.. Jackson that the o
'pening Of the road to the river by way u
# Seventh street would be resisted by
very legal means in his power, and b
hat he considered the opening of the h
Dad as proposed through the Jackson ~
Sharp works would iniure them to =,
he extent of 100000. If this Marsh q
'ane is not public property, no II
ody who is acquainted with the locali- >,
will blame Mr.. jackson for taking >,
ecided stand against the opening of tho if
DAD without payingfor injury inflicted p,
pon his property. ~