Davis v. Dennis
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lewis county, Rice J., entered June 21, 1905, upon- the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs in an action to recover possession of unsurveyed government coal lands.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The respondents, who- were plaintiffs below, brought this action against the appellants to recover the possession of certain unsurveyed government lands on which they had discovered a coa.1 vein. The lands are situated in the eastern portion of Lewis county, some sixteen miles from the nearest wagon road, some one hundred miles from a railroad, and are reached by a trail over which it is possible to take, pack animals only. The nearest comer on the government surveys is about twelve miles distant from the discovery claim. From this corner the respondents caused a *56private survey to be made,…
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