Ponton v. House

LA PRADE, Justice.

This case presents an appeal from a portion of the judgment quieting title in. appellee, John House, plaintiff below, in and to certain mining claims, which in his mining locations dated April 3, 1951, were designated as Gold Leaf 1, 2 and 3. Appellant Mrs. M. S. Ponton, defendant below, does not question the judgment insofar as it relates to Gold Leaf claims 2 and 3. But she denied that plaintiff had any right, title or interest in the so-called Gold Leaf No. 1, and alleged that she owned the claim by virtue of a quitclaim conveyance to her executed March 31, 1948, by one…