Columbia Realty Corporation v. Harrelson

The Columbia Realty Corporation (Columbia) commenced the proceedings below to obtain an injunction to prevent the obstruction of and interference with the rights of the public and Columbia to use a forty foot wide strip of land which runs in an easterly-westerly direction from Indiana State Road 13 A to the water’s edge of Lake Wawasee. The Harrelsons filed a cross-complaint to quiet title to the land and requested, by motion, that Crow’s Nest, Inc. (Crow’s Nest) be made a party defendant. Crow’s Nest then filed a cross-complaint by which they sought to quiet title to the same tract of land.

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