Pierce v. Riley

Supplemental Opinion

T. M. Burns, J.

This case, reported at 16 Mich App 419; 168 NW 2d 309 (1969), and 35 Mich App 122; 192 NW 2d 366 (1971), is before us for a third time. Inasmuch as the facts of the case were fully set forth and discussed in our prior opinions, we need only briefly restate them here.

The defendants, riparian owners on Stony Lake in Oceana County, constructed a large real estate development consisting of cottages and trailer sites on property they owned but which did not front on the lake. As part of their project defendants provided access to the lake for 90 nonriparian lots…