State Highway Department v. Parsons

ADAMS, Justice.

The Alabama State Highway Department and Perry A. Hand, its director,1 appeal from an order of the trial court implementing one aspect of a comprehensive settlement agreement among the parties in this case which established guidelines for the maintenance of Little Lagoon in Gulf Shores, Alabama. We affirm.

This case comes before this Court with an interesting factual and procedural history:

The State Highway Department (“Department”) installed concrete jetties at the junction of Little Lagoon (an interior body of water) and the Gulf of Mexico in the early 1980’s, to stabilize a…