Mississippi Department of Marine Resources v. Brown

SMITH, Chief Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Landowners Sydney and Stephanna Brown appealed from the Commission on Marine Resources decision denying their application to fill approximately 1.64 acres of tidal marsh and to add 200 feet to an existing pier. The Jackson County Chancery Court reversed and rendered the decision, and the Department of Marine Resources appealed. The Court of Appeals held that once the chancellor determined that the record was “devoid of any findings of fact” to support the Commission’s decision, the sole remedy was to remand the *676case back to the Commission to enter an…