Cameron v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Arizona; Wm. H. Sawtelle, Judge. Suit by the United States against Ralph H. Cameron and others. From a decree for the United States, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Arizona; Wm. H. Sawtelle, Judge. Suit by the United States against Ralph H. Cameron and others. From a decree for the United States, defendants appeal. The court below entered a decree against the appellants (defendants there), among other things enjoining them from occupying, using, or asserting any claim to, or from engaging in business of any kind upon, or from interfering in any manner with, the administration or use by the government (complainant in the case), its officers, agents, or permittees, of a certain piece…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] In effect, the contention here made on behalf of the appellants is that the Secretary of the Interior was without authority to find as a fact that the locator of the alleged mining ground never made any discovery of mineral therein, and that the ground was not mineral land, nor any authority to cancel or hold void a lode mining location or claim, and *946that therefore the defendants to the action were entitled to introduce testimony in the court below to show that the ground in controversy is mineral land and was properly located by the appellant Ralph H.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Clipper Mining Co. v. Eli Mining & Land Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Daniels v. WagnerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
- Cameron v. BassArizona Supreme Court · 1917
3Cited by4 opinions
- El Dorado Oil Works v. McColganCalifornia Supreme Court · 1950
- Warren v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1947
- Cahan v. Empire Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
- Murphy v. Howard Copper Co.Arizona Supreme Court · 1925