Hibernia Securities Co. v. Morey

The Hibernia Securities Company prosecuted this action against respondent M. PI. Morey to quiet title to certain mining and mineral rights in lands situated in the county of El Dorado. The answer of defendant Morey, in addition to denying any title in plaintiff, averred title in herself to an undivided two-thirds interest in the property by virtue of a certain deed executed by Andrew C. Smith and his wife to defendant in 1932, and further alleged that in 1914 at the time of the dissolution of the Monarch Consolidated Gold Mining Company, an Oregon corporation, it was then the owner in fee of…