Grubstake Inv. Ass'n v. State

This case presents the question whether, under the Mexican law as it existed in 1835, a grant of land bordering upon a public stream vested in the grantee title in the bed to the thread of the stream, or, on the other hand, whether the boundary of such grant terminated at the borders of the stream. This question, we think, has never been judicially determined in this state.

Since we have reached the conclusion that the grant vested in the grantee title in the bed to the thread of the stream, and since this holding is decisive of the case, it will be necessary only to state so much of the…