Bauerle v. Charlevoix County Board of Road Commissioners

Plaintiffs are the land contract purchasers of 40 acres of land upon which there is situated a portion of a small, spring-fed pond having a total area of 3 to 4 acres. The prior codefendants, Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman, are the owners of property immediately to the north of plaintiffs. A portion of the pond is located upon their property.

Before 1967, Reycraft Road stopped at the western edge of the pond. It was a two-rut dirt road running east and west and was bounded on both sides by woods. Prior to 1935, people got to Walloon Lake, just beyond and to the east of the pond, by Reycraft Road and by…