Schofield v. Dingman

Thomas P. Turner owned land bordering Lake Michigan in Berrien county, and had a surveyor prepare a plat of a part thereof, designat ing lots by numbers, together with dimensions. This plat was not recorded. Along the lake was quite a uniform bluff about 50 feet above the water and at times, especially when there was high water, the water washed the foot of the bluff, but most of the time there was a sand beach between the bluff and the water. The plat was laid out on top of the bluff upward of 167 feet from the meander line, with seven lots fronting a private roadway 125 feet from the rear…