Jacobs v. Lyon Township

This case involves the scope of riparian rights attendant to certain road-end properties held by defendant Lyon Township and dedicated for use as streets. The streets run perpendicular to Higgins Lake. At issue is Lyon Township Road-End Ordinance No. 31, which purports to regulate public use of the road-ends for lake access and recreation. Plaintiffs, lakefront corner-lot owners, filed suit alleging, inter alia, that Ordinance 31 permitted and encouraged public activities that exceeded the scope of the statutory dedication of the streets, and that the township, through enactment of the…