HAYES v. BOWMAN


91 So.2d 795 (1957)

Warwick J. HAYES and his wife, Olive Hayes and M. Parker Abbott and his wife, Esther S. Abbott, Appellants, v. J. Warren BOWMAN, Richard H. Misener and L. Carle McEvoy, Jr., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A.

January 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsey & Cargell, St. Petersburg, for appellants.

Henry Esteva, St. Petersburg, for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

Appellants Hayes and Abbott, who were plaintiffs below, seek reversal of a final decree of the Chancellor in a declaratory judgment proceeding involving alleged riparian rights of the parties in the tidal waters of Boca Ciega Bay.

Although many incidental questions are propounded, the determining point is whether a fill proposed by the appellees would, when constructed, encroach upon the common law riparian rights of appellants.

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