Case Name: John G. IMMER, individually and for and on behalf of the owners of property in The Moorings Subdivision, and The Moorings Property Owners Association, Appellants, v. Albert L. WEINTRAUB and Sara Lee Weintraub, his wife; Jonathan Kislak; Morton Varat and Anita Varat, his wife; and Hagen V. Taudt and Rosemarie Taudt, his wife, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-03-16
Citations: 413 So. 2d 47
Docket Number: No. 80-1231
Parties: John G. IMMER, individually and for and on behalf of the owners of property in The Moorings Subdivision, and The Moorings Property Owners Association, Appellants, v. Albert L. WEINTRAUB and Sara Lee Weintraub, his wife; Jonathan Kislak; Morton Varat and Anita Varat, his wife; and Hagen V. Taudt and Rosemarie Taudt, his wife, Appellees.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ and FERGUSON, JJ., and EZELL, BOYCE F., Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 413
Pages: 47–50

Head Matter:
John G. IMMER, individually and for and on behalf of the owners of property in The Moorings Subdivision, and The Moorings Property Owners Association, Appellants, v. Albert L. WEINTRAUB and Sara Lee Weintraub, his wife; Jonathan Kislak; Morton Varat and Anita Varat, his wife; and Hagen V. Taudt and Rosemarie Taudt, his wife, Appellees.
No. 80-1231.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 16, 1982.
Rehearing Denied May 17, 1982.
Adams & Ward and Robert C. Ward, Miami, for appellants.
Philip T. Weinstein, Miami, Michael J. Freeman, Coral Gables, Fine, Jacobson, Block, Klein, Colan & Simon and Stuart L. Simon, Silverstein & Heilman, Miami, for appellees.
Before SCHWARTZ and FERGUSON, JJ., and EZELL, BOYCE F., Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge.
. It should be noted that the riparian owners in the Moorings subdivision, whose lots on the west bank face the defendants’ across the canal, all filed specific disclaimers of interest in this litigation. See Alden v. Pinney, supra, indicating that these owners could maintain the action; cf. 65 C.J.S., supra, § 75.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Judge.
As the owner of a non-abutting lot in the Moorings subdivision who was granted by dedication the right to the "use and enjoyment" of an artificial but navigable canal within the boundaries of the subdivision to the east of his property, the plaintiff-appellant Immer possessed no rights in or to the canal beyond those possessed by the public generally. Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission v. Lake Islands, Ltd., 407 So.2d 189 (Fla.1981); Silver Blue Lake Apts., Inc. v. Silver Blue Lake Home Owners Ass'n, 245 So.2d 609, 615 (Fla.1971) (Ervin, C. J., dissenting); 65 C.J.S. Navigable Waters § 1 (1966). Accordingly, he did not have standing to maintain the instant action, which complains that the defendants, who own parcels which are not within the subdivision, but which abut the canal on the opposite or east side, are improperly exercising riparian rights of access by maintaining docks and boats in the waterway. See Alden v. Pinney, 12 Fla. 348, 390 (1869); Sullivan v. Moreno, 19 Fla. 200, 220 (1882).
The other plaintiff, the Moorings Property Owners Association, is an unincorporated association which itself owns no property whatever and thus all the more clearly may not assert such a claim. See United States Steel Corp. v. Save Sand Key, Inc., 303 So.2d 9 (Fla.1974); Hemisphere Equity Realty Co., Inc. v. Key Biscayne Property Taxpayers Ass'n, 369 So.2d 996, 1001 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979).
On the sole ground of lack of standing— and specifically without deciding the substantive issue of whether the defendants in fact possess riparian rights to the canal— the judgment entered below is therefore
Affirmed.