What are the legal precedents?
“We have examined statue, AG Opinions, Ohio Supreme Court Decisions, and other relevant case law. Our Statue refers only to the ‘natural shoreline’ as the delineation between upland ownership and the state’s public trust property. Our policy and practice is based in part on the absence of definitive case law on the subject.” However, there are a number of legal precedents: Baumhart v. McClure, 21 Ohio App. 491, 493 (1926) states: “land lost by submergence may be regained by reliction, and its disappearance by erosion may be returned by accretion upon which the ownership temporarily lost would be regained.” [ODNR’s Costal Management Office does not recognize this precedent. They state that any property covered by water becomes state property.] State, ex. rel. Duffy v. Lakefront East 55th Street Corp., 137 Ohio St. 8, 12 (1940) states: “Title by accretion vests in the littoral [lakefront] owner on the shores of Lake Erie as to all lands formed gradually and imperceptibly in the extension
