Bolger v. Foss
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County, and from an order refusing a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
The action is for an injunction to prevent defendant trespassing upon plaintiff’s land, and for damages. The defenses are that defendant has a right of way through the *251plaintiff’s lands; and that a highway or public road runs though them, upon which alone defendant has passed and threatens to pass.
“Prescription” is not a term strictly applicable to a right acquired by the public by the use of a way for arty period of time. The law allows prescriptions only to supply the place of grants, and inasmuch as the public cannot take by grant, the term “prescription,” in its strict sense,…
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