Chicago Quartz Mining Co. v. Oliver

This is an action to quiet title. The plaintiff claims under a mining patent issued August 16, 1883; defendant under a patent issued to the Central Pacific Railroad Company, dated April 18, 1870.

*196The only question is, whether the title to the premises in controversy vested in the railroad company under the act of Congress entitled “ An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean,” etc., approved July 1, 1862, and the act amendatory thereof, approved July 2, 1864.

The land is within the boundaries of one of the sections covered by…