Board of Trustees v. Webb

BOOTH, Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal from a judgment quieting title in certain lands in Alachua County to appellee Charles Webb. Appellant contends, inter alia, that the trial court erred in finding that the Arredondo Land Grant1 divested the sovereign of title *1382to the lands beneath Orange Lake, a navigable water body.

Briefly, the historical background is that from 1763 to 1783, the country then known as Florida, divided into East and West Florida, was under British rule. At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, Florida reverted to Spain under the Treaty of Paris, executed in…