Grill v. Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club

This case has heretofore been before this court; see Grill v. Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club (1961), 57 Wn. (2d) 800, 359 P. (2d) 1040. The opinion in that case gave the factual background which will not be repeated here. That opinion, likewise, clearly stated the problems posed by this litigation, and it must be read for an understanding of what we here decide.

We must first determine whether the outer or lakeward line of the shorelands of the plaintiffs and defendants, i.e., the “line of ordinary navigation,” is as fixed by Judge Raymond Royal in his “partial summary judgment” of March 23, 1960,…