Burnette v. Black

DAUKSCH, Judge.

Petitioners contend that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law in refusing to strike or dissolve a lis pendens filed in a declaratory judgment and quiet title action. We agree and quash the order.

This case involves a dispute regarding the ownership of certain oceanfront property. Respondents claim that they purchased several lots on Anastasia Island which are described in their deeds, or the subdivision plats, as oceanfront property. However, sometime after 1964 a strip of land along the Atlantic was created by accretion. Some of that land lies east of…