Butte Northern Copper Co. v. Radmilovich

In July, 1906, John Radmilovich made application in the United States land office at Helena, Montana, for a patent to the *159Balkan quartz lode mining claim. The Butte Northern Copper Company and John Stepan filed adverse claims, claiming a portion of the ground under their location of the Stepan No. 2 claim, and another portion under their location of the Minnesota claim. Their adverse claims were allowed in the land office, and within thirty days afterwards they commenced two actions against Radmilovich, one based upon each of their claims. The defendant answered, putting in issue most of the…