SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. ELDRIDGE, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 15 infra.
This case raises for the first time the extent of the rights which neighboring owners and members of the public may respectively have in the littoral at Ocean City, Maryland — that portion of the beach which lies west of the Atlantic Ocean's mean high tide line, referred to in this opinion as "mean high water mark."
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