Granlick v. Johnston

Kimball, Justice.

This case involves the right to possession of eighty acres of land valuable for oil.

The plaintiff’s right is based upon a claimed location of a placer mining claim on the north half of the southeast quarter of section 7 and the north half off the southwest quarter of section 8; the defendants’ upon a similar claimed location on the southwest quarter of section 8. The tract of which the right to possession is in dispute is the north half of the southwest quarter of section 8, each location including this tract as well as eighty additional acres not in dispute.

The judgment was…