Helena Gold & Iron Co. v. Baggaley
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County; Henry C. Smith, Judge. Action by tbe Helena Gold and Iron Company against Ralph Baggaley. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeale. This court has at all times adopted a liberal rule of construction in the consideration of these location notices, and in Purdum v. Laddin, 23 Mont. 387, 59 Pac. 153, the doctrine was announced that only a substantial compliance with the law was needed.
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Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County; Henry C. Smith, Judge. Action by tbe Helena Gold and Iron Company against Ralph Baggaley. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeale. This court has at all times adopted a liberal rule of construction in the consideration of these location notices, and in Purdum v. Laddin, 23 Mont. 387, 59 Pac. 153, the doctrine was announced that only a substantial compliance with the law was needed. (Hauswirth v. Butcher, 4 Mont. 299, 1 Pac. 714; Bramlett v. Flick, 23 Mont. 96, 57 Pae. 869; Walker v. Bennington, 27 Mont. 369, 71 Pac. 156;…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
The defendant on March 13, 1905, filed an application in the land office at Helena for a patent to the Success quartz lode mining claim. Within the sixty days of publication of notice of the application, the plaintiff filed its adverse claim, alleging right to the possession of the ground covered by the Success *467claim to the extent of five and eight-hundredths acres under two prior locations, named, respectively, the “Helena” and the “Wisconsin” quartz lode claims. This action was then brought to determine the right of possession to the area in controversy.
The discovery of the Success lode was…
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