Dallas v. Fitzsimmons

The parties are here in the same relative position as in the trial court and will be referred to as plaintiffs and defendants or by name. The State Board of Land Commissioners, not a party hereto, will be referred to as the Board.

*198Plaintiffs brought an ejectment action against defendants claiming all the mining rights on a half section of state land in Park County,- Colorado, under a mining lease granted to them by the Board. Defendants claim a portion of the land involved by allegedly valid prior lode mining locations under state law. Judgment was for defendants below and after the trial…