Richen v. Davis
Oregon Supreme Court
From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by D. E. Bichen and Curtis Haley against Titus E. Davis, to quiet title to an unpatented mining claim covering the southeast % of the southeast % of the southwest % of section 29, township 9 south, range 37 east, Willamette Meridian, containing approximately 10 acres of placer ground near Sumpter, Oregon.
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From Baker: Gustav Anderson, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Bean. This is a suit by D. E. Bichen and Curtis Haley against Titus E. Davis, to quiet title to an unpatented mining claim covering the southeast % of the southeast % of the southwest % of section 29, township 9 south, range 37 east, Willamette Meridian, containing approximately 10 acres of placer ground near Sumpter, Oregon. The Circuit Court rendered a decree in favor of the plaintiffs, and the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The plaintiffs base their claim to the mining ground upon a location made April 27,1905, by plaintiff D. E. Bichen and one ¥m. H. Kitchen, under the name of the Kentucky Placer Mining Claim; a proper record having been made afterward. The rights of Kitchen under the location have since been acquired and are now held by plaintiff Haley. The defendant claims the ground under a location as a placer claim made by him June 26, 1914, notice of which was duly recorded. The answer admits the location made in 1905, under which the plaintiffs claim. It is the contention of defendant Davis that no work…
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