Garling v. Indiana Department of Natural Resources

OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge.

Case Summary

Karen L. Garling challenges the trial court's decision recognizing Lake Cieott as a public freshwater lake. In particular, Garling alleges that the trial court erred as a matter of fact and law in determining that the riparian landowners acquiesced in the public using Lake Cicott, thereby making it a public lake. Further, Garling attacks the trial court's decision on the basis that it relied on inadmissible hearsay to conclude that Lake Cicott was a public, rather than a private, lake. Because we find that the trial court correctly concluded that Lake Cicott…