People v. Whitaker

Citations

• 101 Cal. 597
• 36 P. 109
• 1894 Cal. LEXIS 1084

Syllabus

<p>Public Highway—Insufficient Order—Uncertain Description.— Where an order establishing a public highway does not purport to declare any particular described proposed line of road a public highway, but declares the road reported by the viewers a public highway, and the report of the viewers merely describes the termini of the road, and refers to it as the “ Elam Route,” the descriptions are too general and indefinite to establish the existence of a public highway.</p>