Marina Dock Age

A legal fight that lasted more than 10 years involving the number of slips at Londontown Marina in London, Md., has finally been settled, and only two of the slips at the existing marina have to be removed, according to a July 26 report in The Capital.

The legal battle pitted the marina against the Larrimore family, who has owned land in the area since the 1800s. The marina occupies a little cove on the South River near a spit of land called Larrimore Pointe, named after the family. Some members of the Larrimore family still live on the property and contend that over the years the marina has lengthened and widened its slips, encroaching on the nearby property and several slips had to be removed.

The case went before the county Board of Appeals in 2008. It issued a ruling that attorneys from both sides disagreed about what it meant. So the case was taken to Circuit County Court, where Judge Philip Caroom remanded the case back to the Board of Appeals and ordered the body to clarify its ruling.

While attorneys for the property owners believed that 12 slips had to be removed in the first ruling, the Board of Appeals ruling clarified its ruling earlier this year saying that only two slips had to be demolished.