City of Frankfort v. State Treasurer

Village of Elberta v. City of Frankfort, 347 Mich 173, is the prime cause of this litigation. There it was held that the peninsula separating Lake Michigan from Lake Betsie, in Benzie county, was a legal part of Elberta and not of Frankfort. While the present issue was not before him, the presiding chancellor made the following prescient note in his opinion (p 183 of report of Elberta v. Frankfort):

“It thus appears that Frankfort has obviously in all prior years, until very recently at least, taken little or no interest in this little piece of property ‘across the lake.’ It may be that it has…