Duncan v. Sunset Agricultural Minerals

—Defendant corporation appeals from an adverse judgment in an action to quiet title to a-20-acre mining claim in Kern County which it acquired by assignment in 1963. Although defendant filed the required proofs of annual assessment work on the claim from date of acquisition through 1967, plaintiffs recordéd a notice of location covering the same claim on September 30, 1966. They commenced this quiet title action May 3, 1967, and the trial began February 23,1968.

During the trial plaintiffs introduced in evidence a certificate by the Secretary of State showing that defendant’s corporate powers…