United States ex rel. Puckett v. Lindemuth

DIMOND, District Judge.

This is a contest between the United States of America and the defendants to prevent the latter from removing gravel from certain lands located by the- defendants as placer mining claims within an area near the City of Anchorage, Alaska, occupied and used as an airport. It is asserted by the plaintiff that the land embraced within the claims was not at the time of their location available to such location as placer mining claims because of prior reservation at first for townsite purposes and later for airport use.

By Executive Order 3672, dated May 8, 1922, the land was…