Harkins v. Del Pozzi

This is an action to quiet title. It presents but a single primary question: Where is the proper boundary line between second-class tidelands owned by one person and the adjacent uplands owned by another?

The cause was tried to the court. It determined the line of ordinary high tide as of the year 1910, and that it was relatively unchanged at the present time; that there was insufficient substantial or reliable evidence to establish the line of ordinary high tide to have been further landward at any earlier date; and that the owner of the second-class tidelands had acquired title to the…