Derry v. Ross
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court of Lake County. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
A bill was filed in the District Court of Labe County by the appellees, on the 12th day of August, 1876, setting up that they were in possession of a certain placer mine and ditch in Willow gulch in that county, which they had taken possession of and appropriated as abandoned property. That the mine was originally located, and the ditch constructed, by Wesley Willett, James Willett and Samuel Hammett, in the year 1866, and that these parties had left and abandoned the property in 1872, and allowed it to become in a ruinous condition; that the complainants, finding the premises abandoned, had…
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