TIDEWATER AREA CHARITIES v. HARBOUR GATE

Record No. 891406.

396 S.E.2d 661 (1990)

TIDEWATER AREA CHARITIES, INC. v. HARBOUR GATE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen J. Gordon (Mark D. Brynteson; Chesapeake, J. Wayne Sprinkle, Portsmouth, on briefs), for appellant.

Michael A. Inman, McCardell, Inman, Benson, Strickler & Koch, Virginia Beach, for appellee Harbour Gate Owners Ass'n, Inc.

Ann B. Brogan (Thomas E. Cabaniss, Patrick L. Hayden, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Norfolk, on brief), for appellees Lilliam Snow Adams, Leannor Baker, Robert C. Baker, Joseph H. Beland, Virginia L. Beland, Joyce W. Boger; Barbara B. Boggs; Beryl G. Brown, Beverly J. Burlage, Helen H. Christie, Constance C. Constant, Theodore F. Constant, Eleanor M. Coutre, Richard E. Coutre, Charles J. Donlan, Marguerite P. Donlan, Samuel Q. Eure, Yvonne M. Eure, Morgan P. Gibson, Eunice S. Gladstone, Shayle V. Gladstone, Betty Griffin, Judith M. Hechtkoff, Michael J. Hechtroff, Margaret Hofheimer, Flora L. Hudson, Ronald R. Hudson, Richard M. Jacobson, Josephine C. Joyner, Ilhi Kang, Yaegin Kang, Cecelia C. Kaufman, Murray S. Kaufman, Lloyd O. Kessler, Marian H. Kessler, Margaret M. Kohl, William W. Kohl, Thelma W. Kyrus, George O. Laberge, Emma Sue Lindell, Richard L. Lindell, Bessie C. Lira, Thomas Lira, Irene P. Malbon, Amanda V. Marshall, Lawrence E. Marshall, Ardith M. Maxwell, Vivan T. McElven Springborn, Shinayo O. Miner, Mabelle W. Mitchell, Florence E. Molella, Frederick A. Molella, Jr., Dorsel S. Moyers, Pearl M. Moyers, Fletcher Lee Nance, Everett S. Norris, Martha B. Norris, Mildred P. Palmieri, Ralph A. Palmieri, Maxine M. Piland, Harry Edward Pitt, Olga E. Pitt, Gladys L. Prell, Raymond B. Prell, Barbara W. Price, Timothy H. Pugh, Evelyn J. Rivenbark, Alyce B. Schaff, Donald G. Schaff, Priscilla W. Schuttler, Audrey E. Sedath, Howard Smith, Janice Smith, Willie Kate Snow, Martin N. Southern, Leontina Southern, Ohan Tabakian, George D. Terry, Kenneth D. Tetlow, Martha L. Thompson, Virginia H. Turpin, William J. Tuttle, Elsie C. Tuttle, Nancy J. Vaden, James T. Vail, Cornelius Van Heest, Elizabeth B. Van Heest, James C. Van Pelt, Mary A. Van Pelt, James E. Whipkey, Guido Wilde, Susanna Wilde, Ralph Z. Williams.

Gary P. Arsenault, Mercer, Grey & Arsenault, Norfolk, on brief, for appellees Valerie Jove, Henry Burkhardt and Neil Burkhardt.

No briefs or argument for appellees Louise G. Abraham; Eugene C. Barnhardt, III; Frances R. Barhardt; Grace S. Bihr; Richard A. Bihr; William Birhle, Jr.; Ernestine L. Bonds; Robert L. Bonds, Jr.; Fred Burg; Greta Burg; Chris A. Christie; Paul T. Cohoun, Jr.; Muriel A. Crimmins; Paul T. Crimmins; James D. Culpepper; Gerald Dascher; Selma Dascher; A. Earl Dairs; Diane Dairs; M.F. Davis; Herbert C. Doss; Vila F. Doss; Aura K. Eagan; William C. Eagan; John A. Fitzgerald; Ernie J. Gasser, Jr.; Rose Mae Gibson; B.C. Hack; Jane H. Heard; John H. Heard; William C. Heard, III; Marie Ann Hinderliter; Albert F. Holub; Daris M. Humphreys; Wilmine L. Humphreys; Gary P. Janii; Helene S. Johnson; Richard Kelly; Alexander P. Kotarides; Diane F. Lamb; Myron C. Lamb; Abraham Lapin; Susan L. Linn; Andrew T. Lymna; Dorothy R. Lyman; Virginia M. Mahler; Lee R. Marks, et al., Trustees; Carolyn McCowley; Barbara J. McGregory; Bruce J. McGregor; Donald C. Meekins; John A. Meekins; JoAnn Olson; Winston L. Olson; Leslie B. Oppleman; Norma K. Palacio; William B. Palacio; Gerald P. Pulley; Mary V. Pulley; Dorothy Hillsman Robbins; James T. Robinson; Phyllis P. Robinson; Oscar B. Saunders; Sally B. Saunders; Brian L. Schoenfeld; Renee Binder Schoenfeld; Carl H. Sell; Marquerite S. Sell; Henry Lawrence Shutwell; Dolores R. Talbot; Guy F. Trefether, Sr.; Lorriane G. Trefether; George R. Waterman; Athena E. Yeonas.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING, and LACY, JJ., and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.


RUSSELL, Justice.

This appeal concerns the devolution of title to the land underlying an abandoned street. The dispositive question is whether the land, upon abandonment of the street by the local government, attaches to and becomes a part of an adjacent landowner's lot. If so, a conveyance of the lot also vests title to this additional area in the grantee. If not, the former street remains a separate parcel requiring a separate conveyance.

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