Big Hatchet Consolidated Mining Co. v. Colvin

Ejectment by appellant to recover the possession of a lode the top or apex of which, as it alleged, lay . within the exterior boundary lines of its "Washington lode mining claim, and from which it complained that it had been- ousted by the appellees through' underground workings from an adjoining claim. The defendants were the owners of the Cook lode mining claim through a patent older than that under which the Washington was held. Both claims were laid in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction; the Cook, however, trending somewhat more towards the north than the other, so that its…