Mumaugh v. McCarley

These appeals arising from cases that were consolidated for trial concern an area on the western shore of Lake Huron where the lake has receded, exposing approximately two hundred feet of new land. The parties contest the boundary lines of the newly exposed area. Defendants Michael and Debra McCarley and plaintiff H. John Phelps, III, appeal as of right from the trial court’s disposition of the property in issue. Petitioner Freeda VanTol appeals as of right from the trial court’s decision that the VanTol property 1 was nonriparian. We reverse and remand.

The principal area in question in this…