Bolsa Land Co. v. Burdick

Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged that the Bolsa Land Company was the owner of the land in the complaint described, and with the Bolsa Chica Gun Club, a corporation, the members of which were the same as the members of the Bolsa Land Company, were in possession of it. This tract of land, comprising several thousand acres, was wholly inclosed by a fence surrounding its exterior boundaries. Within the inclosure, and near the center of the tract, were numerous sloughs, artificial ponds, and overflowed swamplands. These ponds, sloughs, and swamp-lands were frequented by wild fowl—ducks, geese, snipe,…