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3 Cal. 90

Ramsay v. Chandler

California Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1853

California Supreme Court · decided 1853-04-15

The complaint sets forth that the plaintiffs are owners of a certain mining claim on the South Fork of American River; and, about the 1st April, 1850, had erected a dam and dug a race sufficient to carry off the water, and leave the bed of the river dry enough to work for gold and for mining purposes; and set forth title, claiming under Winters, Marshall, and others, the admitted owners, who also granted the right to plaintiffs to tear down an old mill-dam, so as to head off…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1910

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Decided 1853-04-15

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Heydenfeldt, Justice,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court. Wells, Justice, concurred.

¶2No points have been filed in this case by the counsel on either side, and we have had to examine it without such aid.

¶3It is a bill in chancery for the abatement of a mill-dam. In the decisions of the court upon the admission of evidence I can see no error.

¶4The decree of the court requires a diminution of the defendants’ dam to- the extent of two feet. The only evidence on the question of injury shows that the plaintiffs’ claim was overflowed two or three feet. The right is clearly with the plaintiffs, and and so the District Judge found. The decree should have ordered such a diminution of the defendants’ erection as would have prevented any overflow, from that cause, of the plaintiffs’ mining ground, or, if necessary, an entire abatement.

¶5I do not think the decree has. gone beyond what is clearly warranted by the evidence.

¶6Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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