Houghton v. Johnson

This appeal arises out of the efforts of the defendant, Linda Jean Johnson, to prohibit the plaintiffs from using, for customary beach activities, the seaward portion of her property situated on Cape Cod Bay in Eastham under claims of implied and prescribed easements. In a detailed and comprehensive decision on cross motions for summary judgment, a Land Court judge concluded that Johnson’s property extended seaward of her home to the mean low water elevation and that none of the plaintiffs has any right to use any portion of that land other than “to fish, fowl, or navigate between . . . the…