Lockhart v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPRBMF. COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF HEW MEXICO: This was an action of ejectment brought by plaintiff in error to recover certain mining property in the Territory of New Mexico.
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ERROR TO THE SUPRBMF. COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF HEW MEXICO: This was an action of ejectment brought by plaintiff in error to recover certain mining property in the Territory of New Mexico. The declaration alleges tlnit the plaintiff, on July 10, 1893, was entitled to the possession of a certain mine, or deposit of mineral-bearing rock in place, situated in the Cocbiti mining district, in the county of Bernalillo and Territory of New Mexico, and that while so in possession the defendants, on October 1, 1893, entered into and upon the pi’emises and have ever since withheld the possession of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The first question to be determined in this casé is one which arises out of the facts set forth in the stipulation between the parties, and that is, Did the lands which the plaintiff claims to recover belong at the time of the location in 1893 to the United States within the meaning of section 2319, Revised Statutes, which provides that “ all valuable mineral deposits in land be-' longing to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the…
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