Four Hundred & Twenty Min. Co. v. Bullion Min. Co.

(after stating the facts). Upon the facts shown by the bill of complaint, the defendant insists that the right to the 420 feet of the Comstock lode in question, and, consequently, the right to the patent, appears in the bill to have been once directly put in issue, in an action between the same parties fully litigated and determined in favor of the defendant; and that the matter is res adjudicata, and a bar to further litigation. On this ground it is claimed that the bill shows no equity. After a careful consideration of the acts of congress set out in the statement of the case, it is clear…