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· 5/1/1896

Sutton v. Nicolaisen

Citations

  • 5 Cal. Unrep. 348
  • 44 P. 805
  • 1896 Cal. LEXIS 1052

Syllabus

<p>Highways—What Constitute—User.—Occasional Travel on a road across government land, which has never been laid out, recorded or worked as a public road, will not constitute it a highway.</p> <p>Highways—Establishing by User—Repeal of Statute.—The provision of Political Code, 1876, section 2619, as originally enacted, that “all roads used as such for a period of five years are highways,” was repealed by act of March 30, 1874, as to all counties, though the amendment was in terms made applicable to certain counties only.</p>

Judges: Belcher

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