# People v. Gold Run Ditch & Mining Co.

> California Supreme Court · November 25, 1884 · 66 Cal. 138

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5441884

## Case

- **Full name:** THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. GOLD RUN DITCH and MINING COMPANY
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 25, 1884
- **Citations:** 66 Cal. 138; 4 P. 1152; 1884 Cal. LEXIS 713
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Thornton
- **Judges:** McKee, McKinstry, Ross, Sharpstein, Thornton
- **Cited by:** 76 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- describing environmental impacts of the California Gold Rush
- affirming injunction against hydraulic gold mining because of impacts on downstream riv- ers

## Opinion text

Thornton, J., concurring
-Whether Keyes v. Little York Company, 53 Cal. 724 , is or not overruled by Hillman v. New ington, 57 Cal. 62 ,1 express no opinion. No question of that kind, in my judgment, is involved in this case, or necessary to its decision, and therefore I forbear to give any opinion upon it. As to the other points discussed in the opinion of Justice McKee, I agree with what is said, and the conclusion reached by him.

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