Iron Silver Mining Co. v. Elgin Mining & Smelting Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action to recover possession of certain mining ground in Lake County, Colorado. The plaintiffs in the court below, the defendants in error here, asserted title to the premises under a patent of the United States for what was known as the “ Gilt Edge Claim,” of which they were a part. In the original complaint they asserted title by conveyance from the original locators.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action to recover possession of certain mining ground in Lake County, Colorado. The plaintiffs in the court below, the defendants in error here, asserted title to the premises under a patent of the United States for what was known as the “ Gilt Edge Claim,” of which they were a part. In the original complaint they asserted title by conveyance from the original locators. A patent to them having been subsequently granted, they filed an amended complaint setting up its issue, and that it conveyed to them a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
court:
The question presented for our decision is one of great interest to miners on the public lands, and with respect to it much difference of opinion exists. This difference has arisen from a consideration, on the one hand, of what would properly be called the true end lines of a claim upon a lode of a specified length and width, after it has been opened by explorations, and its general course and direction are seen; and a consideration, on the other hand, of the statute requiring the location of a claim to be distinctly marked on the ground, so that its boundaries may be readily traced.…
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