Legal Opinion
Rayne v. Coulbourne
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 4, 1985No. 2, September Term, 1985PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALPERT, Judge.
It has been said that “time and tide wait for no man.” In this “riparian rights” case, man has awaited the effect of the tide, i.e., man has waited sixteen years for a decision as to the legal effect that tide has on the boundaries of his real property. In October, 1969, Dale and Hilda Rayne, appellants, filed suit in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County against Franklin and Frances Coulbourne, Caroline Blades, H. Gray and Shirley Reeves, Larmar Corporation, John and Althea Willin, and the State of Maryland, seeking an equitable share of an artificially created peninsula that…
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