Bemis v. Bemis

This is an action for alleged trespasses upon Leland Lake, sometimes called Athens Pond, located in the town of Athens, which the court found to be a natural body of water containing 18.2 acres, and not to be public water. The defendant has title to most of the land immediately surrounding the lake and claims to own the land under it. A small rectangular piece of defendant’s land was formerly owned by one Oscar Dean under a deed in which it was bounded as follows: — -“Commencing at a point on” a certain “log road and the Athens Pond, so-called, thence westerly on the south side of said log…