Rundle v. Republic Cement Corporation

This is an appeal from a judgment entered below quieting title to certain placer mining claims on unappropriated federal government land. Appellants, defendants-below, rested on the evidence elicited in the course of the case made by plaintiffappellee, contending that it revealed the defectiveness of appellee’s title claim, wherefore, by agreement of counsel, the jury/ *104was discharged and the matter was submitted to the court ttpon cross-motions for a directed verdict. The principal question presented is whether the locations made by appellee’s predecessors in title, eight persons forming an…