Court Opinion

ID: 6567773
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 19:21:27.684377+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:56:48.153239
License: Public Domain

ROSS, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the judgment on the ground that the case made before the court below, from whose order granting a preliminary injunction this appeal comes, shows that the appellee’s grantor took possession of the tide lands in controversy in the year 1881, since which time the appellee and his grantors have held the continuous and exclusive possession until the driving of the piles by the appellant complained of. That possession existing, the court below was right in protecting it by its preliminary injunction. Heckman v. Sutter, 119 F. 83, 55 C.C.A. 635; Id., 128 F. 393, 63 C.C.A. 135. The present being an appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction only, I do not think the merits of the case should be decided in advance of a trial upon the merits in the court below.