Diamond Match Co. v. Savercool

This is an action to quiet title to a road, approximately fifteen miles in length, running through plaintiff's timber lands in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Tehama County. The defendants Davison and Errington alone defended the action. Judgment went in their favor and plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff contends that the road is a private road and that defendants’ use thereof has been permissive only and not such as to give rise to any right. Defendants urge that it is a public road, dedicated as such by many years’ user, and that the plaintiff is estopped to deny its public character.

At the…