Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc. v. American Steel & Iron Works, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

Plaintiff in error Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc., was defendant below and will be referred to as Tungsten or defendant. American Steel and Iron Works, Inc., was plaintiff in the trial court and will be designated as American Steel or plaintiff.

By writ of error Tungsten seeks to reverse a judgment for the plaintiff and the authority to foreclose a material and labor lien to satisfy the judgment.

The defendant owned a tungsten mine and mill near Nederland, Colorado, and wished to remove tungsten from low grade tailings on its property by a secret process, for the use of…