Ball v. Stephens

The judgment in this case declared, “that for more than thirty years immediately preceding the commencement of the above-entitled action there has been and still is a public road and highway situated in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, described as follows, to wit: [description] ... to the Deer Trail Quicksilver Mine, and being the present existing road traversing said sections and being 20 feet in width.’’ Defendant was ordered to remove a fence with a locked gate which he had placed across the road where it enters his land and to pay plaintiff $500 damages as the…