Mullins v. Butte Hardware Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Silver Boiu County; William Clancy, Judge. Proceedings by Patrick Mullins against the Butte Hardware Company and C. H. Nickel and others for the partition of a mining claim. Prom a judgment and from orders denying the motion for a new trial, plaintiff and defendant the Butte Hardware Company appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pigott
Mullins, the plaintiff, and the Butte Hardware Company, a corporation, one of the defendants, have appealed from a judgment and from orders denying motions for a new trial in an action for the partition of the Yellow Jack quartz lode mining claim.
On May 13, 1891, the claim, which is now within the corporate limits of the city of Butte, was located by one Cummings. "When the location was made and for some time theretofore, Cummings, one Bowen, one Moss, one Hamilton and perhaps others, were occupying parts of the surface ground, each having *527a dwelling house or other visible evidence of…
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