Gwynn v. Oursler

SONNER, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court for Calvert County alleging that the court incorrectly denied the existence of a riparian right-of-way claimed by appellants across the land of appellees. Following a bench trial, the court (Rymer, J.) determined that those who deeded the easement in 1957 across two waterfront parcels of land did not intend to convey riparian rights that would entitle appellants to erect a pier at the end of the easement and, further, that a right-of-way to the shore of a navigable river does not, by implication, create riparian rights. We agree with the…