Miller v. Hawkeye Gold Dredging Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. Milo P. Smith, Judge. From a decree declaring certain sums owing plaintiffs, and establishing liens on an alleged trust fund on deposit with the Cedar Rapids National Bank and ordering payment therefrom, the defendants appeal
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The Fraser river, having -its source near the headwaters of the Yukon, flows south into the Straits leading to the Pacific Ocean. For many years the Indians washed gold from the debris along its shores. Citizens of this state laboring under the delusion that doing so by machinery would prove feasible,' as well as profitable, organized a corporation, known as the Iowa Lillooet Mining Company, Limited, under the laws of British Columbia, with its principal place of business at Lillooet, B. C., and through it launched on the river a dredge boat equipped with machinery, with the design of…
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