Bushnell v. Crooke Mining & Smelting Co.

This was an action of ejectment brought by the defendant in error in the district court of Hinsdale County, State of Colorado, against the plaintiffs in error to recover possession of a certain portion of the surface location of a mining claim on Ute Mountain in said county and State. The suit grew out of conflicting and interfering locations of mining claims by the parties. The defendant in error was the owner or claimant of a mining location, called the Annie lode, while the plaintiffs in error were the owners of a claim called the Monitor lode. The claim of the latter was first located,…