Beaty v. Metropolitan Dade County

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs below from an adverse decree in a suit against Dade County seeking damages for an alleged wrongful taking of real property. The county answered, and the cause was heard by the chancellor who found for the defendant and dismissed the cause with prejudice.1

The material facts were stated in the decree, which contained findings of fact and conclusions of law, as follows:

“Plaintiffs by an action at law alleged that in November, 1962, defendant without right or title dug a canal across *598a part of their property, destroying a culvert which afforded access to their…