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W. H. PUGH COAL CO. v. STATE

No. 81-021.

105 Wis.2d 123 (1981)

312 N.W.2d 856

W.H. PUGH COAL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin and County of Racine, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided October 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Victor M. Harding of Whyte & Hirschboeck, S.C. of Milwaukee.

For the defendants-respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general; Thomas L. Dosch, assistant attorney general, and William F. Bock, Racine county corporation counsel.

Before Voss, P.J., Brown and Scott, JJ.

SCOTT, J.

This is a civil action brought to quiet title to a section of land along the Lake Michigan shore known as the Racine Coast Guard Station property. The trial court decided that the property belonged to the State because the State holds the lake bed in public trust. We hold that this land is an accretion to the property of the lakeshore landowner, and we reverse.

The United States Government erected a lighthouse on the bed of Lake Michigan around 1866...

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