State ex rel Allegan Prosecutor v. Summer School of Painting at Saugatuck, Inc.

Defendants appeal as of right a decision of the Allegan County Circuit Court finding that Oxbow Lake is a public lake, that there exists a navigable entrance to it, and that an injunction should issue prohibiting defendants from interfering with public access to the lake.

Defendants are owners of property abutting Oxbow Lake. They do not dispute the contention that they ordered members of the public, who had gained access to Oxbow Lake through what defendants characterize as a "swamp”, to stay off of the lake. It was, and is, defendants’ position that because this entrance to the lake is…