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STATE OF GEORGIA v. ASHMORE

30176, 30177.

236 Ga. 401 (1976)

224 S.E.2d 334

STATE OF GEORGIA v. ASHMORE et al. LINES et al. v. ASHMORE et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 24, 1976.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs, II, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Don A. Langham, Deputy Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia T. Barmeyer, Assistant Attorney General, William H. Agnor, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for State of Georgia.

Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, Carl E. Sanders, John J. Dalton, June Ann McClure, for Ashmore et al.

Moreton Rolleston, Jr., for Lines et al.

Lissner & Killian, J. J. Lissner, Jr., Charles L. Gowen, A. Paul Cadenhead, David G. Crockett, James A. Mackay, amicus curiae.

UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

The court wishes to acknowledge that the factual statement and Division I of this opinion were authored by Justice Gunter.

These two appeals involve claims to the foreshore and claims to land above the foreshore (above the high water mark) as the foreshore moves back and forth, outward toward the ocean and inward toward the land. The litigation began when the State of Georgia filed a complaint against parties who were asserting...

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