Moody Beach

Moody Beach is a private Beach situated in Wells Maine. Around 100 homes append the Beach. Moody humored Beach has a mix of year-round and summer inhabitants, and in addition here and now vacationers from around New England and Quebec. Moody Beach is focal in the level headed discussion over free versus private rights to the Maine shore.

In March 1989, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court favored mortgage holders in Bell v. Town of Wells, otherwise called the Moody Beach case. The court attested that, in Maine, proprietors of beachfront property or property abutting tidelands have private property rights to the low-water stamp or low tide zone, subject just to an open easement for "angling, fowling, and route." The case is regularly refered to as specialist for the thought that people in general has just exceptionally constrained rights in intertidal zone the territory amongst high and low tide.