Donohue v. Russell

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court of Bay county in summary proceedings for the possession of land lying between the meander line and the water line of Saginaw Bay.

In July, 1918, the defendant leased from the plaintiff a vacant lot on Donohue Beach for a period of five years. On this lot he built a cottage. He occupied the cottage and paid his rent until March 22, 1923, at which time this court decided the case of Kavanaugh v. Rabior, 222 Mich. 68, in which it was held that riparian owners along the Great Lakes own only to the meander line, and the title…