Legal Opinion
Cuprite Mine Partners v. John Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 31, 2015No. 13-16657PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal of a diversity action to partition mining claims under Arizona law. We conclude that the district court properly applied Arizona’s substantive law regarding partition and federal procedural standards for summary judgment, and we affirm.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Guy Anderson (Guy) owned sixteen mining claims in Arizona’s Copper Mountain Mining District. 1 Upon his death in 1975, he bequeathed them to his six children, with each child receiving an undivided one-sixth interest in each mining claim.
Five of Guy’s children (or their successors…
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