Peterson v. Bullion Beck & Champion Mining Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Fifth District; Hon. Joshua Greenwood,. Judge. Action by Lars C. Peterson against the Bullion Beck and Champion Mining, Company. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
RITCHIE, District Judge.
This case has been before this court on a former appeal. (33 Utah, 20, 91 Pae. 1095,14 Ann. Cas. 1122.) On the first trial the plaintiff alleged that he leased a block of mining *365ground from the defendant, and that afterwards the defendant, by working the block of ground immediately above his, caved in the ground, covering up the plaintiffs ore and preventing him from carrying on operations under his lease. The defendant answered, denying any wrongful acts to the injury of the plaintiff, and alleging that the block of ground: above the plaintiffs was in the sole and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Peterson v. Bullion-Beck & Champion Mining Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1907
3Cited by3 opinions
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