Title: Town of Newfane v. Walker

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

TOWN_OF_NEWFANE_V_WALKER.92-236; 161 Vt. 222; 637 A.2d 1074

[Filed 17-Dec-1993]

 NOTICE:  This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40
 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports.
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                                 No. 92-236


 Town of Newfane                              Supreme Court

                                              On Appeal from
      v.                                      Windham Superior Court

 John H. and Linda A. Walker                  May Term, 1993
 and Joseph L. and Dorothy Druke


 Richard W. Norton, J.

 J. Garvan Murtha and Richard C. Carroll of Kristensen, Cummings, Murtha &
     Stewart, P.C., Brattleboro, for plaintiff-appellee

 Joseph J. O'Dea, Manchester, for defendants-appellants


 PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley and Morse, JJ., and Peck, J. (Ret.),
           Specially Assigned



      MORSE,  J.   Defendant landowners appeal from a superior court order
 permanently enjoining them from interfering with the public's use of the so-
 called Williamsville dam and swimming hole area and declaring that plaintiff
 Town owns the property in fee.  We affirm in part and reverse in part.
      This is one in a series of cases, and the second to be decided by this
 Court, involving the public's right of access to and use of the
 Williamsville swimming hole.  In Druke v. Town of Newfane, 137 Vt. 571,