Groner v. Foster
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, pronounced December 31, 1894, and from a decree of the Court of Law and Chancery of said city, to which this cause had been removed, pronounced October 23, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants were the defendants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, pronounced December 31, 1894, and from a decree of the Court of Law and Chancery of said city, to which this cause had been removed, pronounced October 23, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants were the defendants. The object of this suit was to establish the lines between the coterminous owners of certain lands lying under water between the shore and the Portwarden’s lines on Elizabeth river and Tarrant’s or Edmund’s creek, and in the meantime to enjoin the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtKiely, J.
Every riparian owner has the right to the water frontage belonging by nature to his land. This right includes, among others, the right of access from the front of his land to the navigable part of the water course, and also the right to the soil under the tvater between his land and the navigable line of the water course, whereon he may erect wharves, piers, or bulkheads for his own use, or the use of the public, subject to such rules and regulations as the Legislature may see proper to impose for the protection of the public. Gould on Waters, sec. 149; Norfolk City v. Cooke, 27 Gratt. 430;…
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