Gwathmey v. STATE THROUGH DEPT. OF ENVIR.

MITCHELL, Chief Justice.

The parties stipulated at trial that the lands claimed by each of the plaintiffs that comprise the subject of this litigation are marshlands located between the high and low water marks in'the Middle Sound area of New Hanover County. Title to the lands in question was conveyed by the State Board of Education (SBE) to the original purchasers of the marshlands between 1926 and 1945. Each of the deeds from the SBE to the original purchasers purports to convey a tract of “marshland” in the “Middle Sound” area to the purchasers, their “heirs and assigns in fee simple…