Oliver v. Burg

This is a suit in equity to quiet title to a group of 60 unpatented placer mining claims embracing some 1,200 acres of placer mining ground situate on or near the head of the Grande Bonde river in Union county.

In her complaint, the plaintiff alleged that she was the owner, subject only to the paramount title of the United States, and in the actual possession of said unpatented placer mining claims. She also alleged in her complaint that the “above named defendants, or some of them (without designating who), claim some estate or interest in or to the above described mining claims” adverse to…