Brickell v. Town of Fort Lauderdale

Citations

• 75 Fla. 622
• 78 So. 681

Syllabus

<p>1. The findings of the chancellor on the evidence, will not be disturbed unless such findings are clearly shown to 'be erroneous.</p> <p>2. On the facts in this case it is held that the dedication of the streets extends to the waters of New River.</p> <p>3. Where a dedication' to the public use is mjade of a street or roadway, and the same is used by the public, it is the duty 'of the city as trustee of the public rights in and to the streets within whose corporate limits they are, to maintain the public uses against encroachments, and this applies to territory taken into the corporate limits after the dedication as well as to territory included in the corporate limits at the time of the dedication.</p>