Frater v. Baylen Street Wharf Co.

Citations

• 57 Fla. 63

Syllabus

<p>Streets Abutting Navigable Waters — Extend With Shore Line. • — Wharfage.</p> <p>1. The rule of law is well settled that a public street leading to navigable waters will keep even pace with the extension of the land, whether the change in the land be due to natural causes, or to the voluntary act of the owner of the land.</p> <p>2. When the shore line of a public street in a city fronting upon navigable waters has been extended out by natural or artificial causes, such public street keeps even pace with such extension of the shore line, and when such extension reaches privately owned abutting property the owner of such abutting property has the right to the full and free use of such extended street to and from his abutting property, and when such abutting owner lands goods from water craft directly upon his own abutting property, he has the right to transport such goods across or along such extension of the street without liability to wharfage charges for the use of such extended street.</p>