Waverly Water-Front & Improvement Co. v. White
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Oourt of the city of Norfolk pronounced December 29, 1894, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee White and others were the complainants, and the appellants and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*177It was held by this court in Groner v. Foster, 91 Va. 650, that “ Every riparian owner has the right to the water frontage belonging by nature to his land. This right includes, among others, the right of access from the front of his land to the navigable part of the water course, and also the right to the soil under the water between his land and the navigable line of the water course, whereon he may erect wharves, piers, or bulkheads for his own use, or the use of the public, subject to such rules and regulations as the Legislature may see proper…
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