Michaelson v. Silver Beach Improvement Ass'n, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that littoral owner may not be entitled to accreted land if accumulations were “caused by the littoral owner himself’
• recognizing that littoral owner may not be entitled to accreted land if accumulations were \caused by the littoral owner himself\
• although land in intertidal zone generally is privately held, it is subject to certain reserved public rights, typically summarized as fishing, fowling, and navigation
• plaintiffs, shorefront property owners, receive title in a beach created artifically by the Commonwealth’s dredging and dumping of the dredged material; the defendant association and its members are enjoined against use of the beach
• “words of similar import . . . convey title to the low water mark”
• in discussing accretions that change lines of ownership, the court stated: “Such accumulations need not be due entirely to natural causes, provided they are not caused by the littoral owner himself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).