Dower v. Richards

Foote, C.

Richards was the owner of a lot of ground which he claimed and held by a deed of conveyance from a Mrs. Bigelow, who had acquired it with other land, under the town-site patent of the city of Nevada, issued in the year 1869, by virtue of the provisions of chapter 32 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

The plaintiff had run a tunnel under this lot, claiming that she had a right to do so, because, as she alleged, in such way only could she reach and work a “gold mine” situated within said lot, and .known to exist at the date of the town-site patent, under which said lot was…