Webb v. American Asphaltum Mining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This action involves the title and the right of possession of a lode or vein of asphaltum of the kind commonly called “gilsonite,” upon which the grantors of the plaintiff, Webb, located a placer claim, and the grantor of the defendant, the American Asphaltum Mining Company, subsequently located two lode mining claims. The defendant applied for a patent, the plaintiff filed an adverse claim, and brought this action to determine the title. The case was tried by the court upon an agreed statement of facts and some extraneous testimony, and the court found for the…
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