Gregg Neck Yacht Club, Inc. v. County Commissioners

HOLLANDER, Judge.

This case involves a dispute concerning ownership of real property, structural improvements, and riparian rights. We must decide, inter alia, whether a deed executed in 1950 conveyed an easement to Kent County or, instead, a fee simple interest that included riparian rights and now encompasses a pier constructed some forty years ago by Gregg Neck Yacht Club, Inc. (“GNYC”), appellant. The pier, situated on the Sassafras River, is at the heart of this dispute.

This litigation was spawned by Kent County’s decision on October 12, 1999, to claim ownership of the pier. That action…