Case Name: GEORGE E. RILEY et al., Appellants, v. NORTH STAR MINING COMPANY, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1907-12-10
Citations: 152 Cal. 549
Docket Number: S. F. No. 4041
Parties: GEORGE E. RILEY et al., Appellants, v. NORTH STAR MINING COMPANY, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 152
Pages: 549–557

Head Matter:
[S. F. No. 4041.
In Bank.
December 10, 1907.]
GEORGE E. RILEY et al., Appellants, v. NORTH STAR MINING COMPANY, Respondent.
Quartz Mining Claim—Conveyance of Part—Description by Surface Lines—Extralateral Dip of Outlying Veins.—Where the patentee of an entire quartz mining claim conveys without reservation a part of the claim described by surface lines, together with all mining right, property, possession, claim, and demand whatsoever of the grantor in or to the premises, the conveyance carries all the land below the surface of the earth within vertical planes conforming to the surface side-lines, including the extralateral dip of all veins having their apexes within the lines of the part of the claim that was not conveyed.
Id.—Deed—Certainty of Description—Construction.—Where a deed is certain and unambiguous it must prevail as to the property conveyed over an inconsistent contract in pursuance of which it was given.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Frank J. Murasky, Judge.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Crittenden Thornton, and J. F. Riley, for Appellants.
Lindley & Eickhoff, and Curtis H. Lindley, for Respondent.

Opinion:
THE COURT.
After a reconsideration of this case in Bank we are satisfied with the conclusion reached and the opinion delivered in Department (infra, p. 550), and for the reasons given in said opinion, the judgment appealed from is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings, as directed in said opinion.