Huguenot Yacht Club v. Lion

This is an action by the plaintiff yacht club, a membership corporation, to enjoin the proprietor of a commercial marina boat yard, known as Lion’s Boat Yard, from use of a floating dock with pilings and for removal of the same upon the grounds that the same exists in contravention of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Rochelle and that the maintenance thereof by defendant is a trespass upon an area covered by the riparian rights of the plaintiff.

For many years the parties have owned or occupied adjoining upland parcels bounded on the south by a navigable arm of Long Island Sound. The…