A Florida town and its very expensive legal fight to take boathouses from owners

The Town of Windermere, which at last count had spent $637,000 asserting its disputed claim to five century-old wooden boathouses, will add to its hefty legal bill by asking an appellate panel to review an emphatic lower court decision siding with the structures’ private owners. Daniel Langley, co-counsel for the owners of the boathouses, which per...