Shore v. Steckloff

CARROLL, CHAS., Chief Judge.

Appellants, who were plaintiffs below, suffered an adverse decree granted on defendants’ motion for summary final decree.

The defendants are riparian owners of a parcel of bay front land, located on the west shore of Biscayne Bay within the limits of the City of Miami. They sought to fill in the bay bottom in front of their land out to or towards the channel, as allowed to such an owner under the Riparian Rights Act of 1856 and 1921, the latter known as the Butler Act and appearing in Florida Statutes 1955 as section 271.01, F.S.A., reading as follows:

“The State,…