State Ex Rel. Sprynczynatyk v. Mills

NEUMANN, Justice.

William R. Mills, Betty L. Mills, Dakota-ville, Inc., and River Woods West, Inc. (Mills) appeal from a partial summary judgment in the State’s declaratory judgment action to determine the parties’ interests in certain land1 between the ordinary high watermark and the ordinary low watermark (the “shore zone”) of the Missouri River. We reverse.

Mills owns the land above the ordinary high watermark of the shore zone. The State brought this declaratory judgment action against Mills, seeking a determination that the State’s title to the shore zone extends to the ordinary high…