Fleming v. Daly

The appellee made application in the proper land office for a United States patent to the Good Record lode mining claim, situate in Green mountain mining district, Gunnison county, Colorado. In due time the appellants, as claimants of the Only Chance mining claim, whose surface boundaries were in conflict with those of the Good Record, filed in the same land office their protest against the issuance of a patent to the appellee upon his application. Within the proper time, the appellants brought this suit against the appellee to determine the question of the right to possession of the…