Slothower v. Hunter
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Carbon County, HoN. David H. Craig, Judge. Aaron Slothower having applied through the United States Land office for.a patent to a mining- claim, an adverse claim was filed by F. E. Hunter, R. F. Jones, H. L-Kuykendall and A. M. Woodruff, and they brought suit in support of such adverse claim. From a judgment awarding the plaintiffs a portion of the ground, the defendant prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to the District Court, Carbon County, HoN. David H. Craig, Judge. Aaron Slothower having applied through the United States Land office for.a patent to a mining- claim, an adverse claim was filed by F. E. Hunter, R. F. Jones, H. L-Kuykendall and A. M. Woodruff, and they brought suit in support of such adverse claim. From a judgment awarding the plaintiffs a portion of the ground, the defendant prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The judgment is erroneous in adjudging title in Wood-ruff jointly with the others in the absence of evidence showing that he ever had an…
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, Justice.
The plaintiff in error made application at the United States Land Office for a patent to the Big Divide lode mining-claim. The defendants in error filed an adverse to such application, setting up that the mineral survey of the Big Divide lode took in certain portions of the Little Joe, Adelaide and Little Wonder lode claims, of which they claimed to be the owners, and within the time prescribed by statute brought this suit in support of their adverse claim in the District Court of Carbon County. To prove his record title, the plaintiff in error introduced in evidence a…
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