Pidgeon v. Lamb

TURPENTINE, J., pro tem.

Plaintiffs filed this action seeking to quiet title to three placer mining claims. Defendant answered denying plaintiffs’ title and asserted title in himself. Judgment was rendered in favor of defendant quieting his title as against plaintiffs except as hereinafter noted. From this judgment plaintiffs appeal.

On March 25, 1911, A. R. Lendner and his associates, all citizens of the United States, went in and upon unoccupied and unappropriated mineral lands of the United States and located ten contiguous placer mining claims under the claim names of Sheep Creek Placer…