Ruggles v. Dandison

Plaintiffs and defendants are adjoining owners of land in Oakland county. On the property of defendants there is situated a small lake approximately 15 or 20 acres in area. On the line dividing the property, defendants have erected a wire fence. Plaintiffs filed a bill to enjoin defendants from maintaining the fence on the ground that plaintiffs have riparian rights in the lake; and on the further ground that they have acquired rights to the use of the said lake by prescription. The trial court dismissed plaintiffs’ bill of complaint, finding that they were not riparian owners and had secured…