Golden Condor, Inc. v. Bell

BURNETT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree quieting title to four unpatented lode mining claims in the Summit Mining District of Shoshone County. The district court ruled in favor of Golden Condor, Inc., the record owner of these claims. Velma Bell has challenged Golden Condor’s title upon the alternative postulates that her husband entered into a contract to buy the claims and that she “relocated” the claims upon an abandonment or forfeiture by Golden Condor. We vacate the decree and remand the case for further findings.

Mrs. Bell’s appeal has raised procedural, evidentiary and…