Lyon v. Kramer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that prescriptive right of family to use lakefront property for swimming, fishing and watering cattle, and use of dock for private boating did not include the right to use any part of the lake for commercial boating or other commercial purposes
• subjecting private title held to low water mark to public rights up to high water mark
• subjecting private title held to low water mark to public rights up to high water mark
• subjecting private title held to low water mark to public rights up to high water mark
• contrasting an easement appurtenant with an easement in gross, and -8- J-S11003-25 stating that “[a]n easement in gross is a mere personal interest in, or right to use, the land [or water] of another ….”
• “[I]n the case of a non-navigable lake or pond where the land under the water is owned by others, no riparian rights attach to the property bordering on the water[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).