State Ex Rel. Erickson v. McLean

How courts have described this case

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• stating “[pjublic policy forbids the application of the doctrine of estoppel to a sovereign state where public waters are involved”
• stating, “[t]he failure of any of these [state employees] to enforce any law may never estop the people to enforce that law either then or at any future time”
• \ `Forfeiture is a \punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, ... whereby he loses all his interests therein.\ '\ (quoting 2 Clesson Selwyn Kinney, Treatise on Irrigation & Water Rights § 1118, at 2020 (2d ed.1912))
• “ ‘Forfeiture is a “punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence in the owner of lands, ... whereby he loses all his interests therein.” ’ ” (quoting 2 Clesson Selwyn Kinney, Treatise on Irrigation & Water Rights § 1118, at 2020 (2d ed.1912))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).