Rindge

This is a suit brought by the government against May K. Rindge et al. to compel the abatement and removal of certain gates and fences erected and maintained by Mrs. Rindge on her own premises on the ground that the same are obstructions to public highways and ways of necessity and an unlawful inclosure of public lands of the complainant, in violation of the Act of Congress of February 25, 1885, c. 149, 23 St. at L. 321 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1524).

The case as made by the record is this: At the time of the cession of California to the United States by Mexico, there was a tract of land of 100,000 acres or' more in what is now Los Angeles county, lying along the coast from the Rancho Santa Monica to Point Mugu, a distance of about 35 miles. It was from five to ten miles wide and extended north to and beyond the Calabasas Road, then and now one of the main highways from Los Angeles to points north. It was *614 bounded on the south by the Pacific Ocean, and on the north, east, and west by land previously granted by the King of Spain to private individuals. A range of mountains known as the Santa Monica Mountains extends through the tract east and west, three or four miles back…