Reilly v. Burns Bros.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “An 24 unauthorized invasion of the rights of the public to navigate the water flowing over the soil 25 is a public nuisance; and an unauthorized encroachment upon the soil itself is known in 26 law as a purpresture.”
• describing environmental impacts of the California Gold Rush

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).