Van Blarcum v. City of North Myrtle Beach

GOOLSBY, Judge:

This case involves a dispute between the City of North Myrtle Beach and Richard and Deborah Van Blarcum over the ownership and use of three areas of property adjoining the Van Blareums’ beachfront motel and residence. The master-in-equity found the Van Blareums held “record title” to a beach area that lies seaward of their lots down to the high-*449water mark of the Atlantic Ocean, but found the area to have been dedicated and thus subject to the public’s right to use and enjoy a portion of it and to the City’s right to maintain that portion. He also found the City had accepted a…