Doherty v. Morris

This action was brought by Morris in support of an adverse claim to a one-third interest in the Great Republican lode, for which Doherty had applied for patent. Doherty relocated the property as an abandoned lode. His claim was that the assessment work for the year 1881 had not been done by the former owners, Mori’is, Bryan and Alexander. This was the principal question presented upon the trial below, and upon its determination in his favor depended the plaintiff’s right to recover. Prior to the relocation Morris owned a one-third interest in the lode, Bryan seven-twelfths, Alexander…