United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Exploration Co. v. Wallapai Mining & Development Co.

— The Wallapai Mining & Development Company, as plaintiff, recovered judgment against the defendants United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Exploration Company and the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Company, corporations, for the sum of $20,000, and the latter appeal.

We will designate the Wallapai Company as plaintiff and the two defendants as defendants, or as the Exploration Company and the Mining Company.

Briefly, plaintiff states its cause of action as follows: That on December 14, 1909, it" was the owner of mining claims known as the Tennessee group of mines, situate in…