United States v. Iron Silver Min. Co.

This is a,proceeding in equity to set aside patents for two placer mines, known, respectively, as the Stinson and the Fanchon placer mines. On demurrer the bill was sustained. See 5 McCrary, 266; S. C. 16 Fed. Rep. 810. See, also, supporting the opinion therein expressed, U. S. v. Minor, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 836, decided in the supreme court, March 30,1885. Answer was thereupon filed, and the case is now submitted on pleadings and proof. The charge in the bill is fraud in obtaining these patents. It is charged that the ground embraced within those patents was not placer mining ground; that several…