New York Supreme Court May 2, 1853 (Demeyer v. Legg)

By the Court, Parker, J.

The judge was clearly right in holding that the deed of 1688 to Wilhelmus Demeyer; the ancestor of the plaintiff, carried a title to the center of the stream. The law is well established, that when lands are bounded by a stream or river not navigable or above tide water, the grantee takes usque filum.