Burdge v. Underwood

Citations

• 6 Cal. 45

Syllabus

<p>The statute making the possessory rights of settlers on public lands for agricultural or grazing purposes yield to the rights of miners, has legalized what would otherwise be a trespass, and the Act cannot be extended by implication to a class of cases not especially provided for.</p> <p>A miner has no right to dig or work within the enclosure surrounding a dwelling house, corral, and other improvements of another.</p>