Shepheard v. Boggs

The case before us as developed in the court below is limited to a question involving the riparian rights of certain owners of lots bor dering on Lafayette river in an exclusive residential development known as “Riverpoint” in the City of Norfolk.

Marie T. Shepheard and nine other lot owners (hereinafter sometimes called Shepheard, et al.) filed their bill against Charles E. Boggs, Jr., and Florence J. Boggs (hereinafter sometimes called the Boggses), owners of lot 4, block 12, in the subdivision.

The bill asserted that riparian rights were appurtenant to each of the lots owned by the parties…