State of Georgia v. Ashmore

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

The court wishes to acknowledge that the factual statement and Division I of this opinion were authored by Justice Gunter.

These two appeals involve claims to the foreshore and claims to land above the foreshore (above the high water mark) as the foreshore moves back and forth, outward toward the ocean and inward toward the land. The litigation began when the State of Georgia filed a complaint against parties who were asserting ownership of the land in question. The present appellees are *402successors to the earlier defending parties, and appellees assert ownership…