Legal Opinion
Lines v. State of Ga.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 6, 1980No. 35333, 35336, 35334, 35335PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bowles, Justice.
Each of the individual and corporate appellants in the above cases owns one or more lots in East End Subdivision of St. Simons Island, Georgia. The original plat of this subdivision was made in the year 1911 at which time the lots in question fronted on the Atlantic Ocean, but with a platted but unopened street entitled Beach Drive dividing the lots in the subdivision from the high water mark of the Atlantic Ocean. All parties in this case concede that the high water mark of the Atlantic Ocean had in the year 1953 moved inward on each of the lots in question. Thus Beach Drive…
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