Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 15, 1811 (Perry v. Wilson)

* Parsons, C. J.

This action is trespass for breaking the plaintiff’s close, which is a part of the shore of Androscoggin river, in which the tide ebbs and flows, and is bounded on one side on the upland, and also adjoining to the plaintiff’s flats.

The defendant justifies under, and as one of the proprietors of the side-booms on Androscoggin river, a corporation created by the statute of 1804, c.