Smaller v. Leach

Plaintiffs in error were defendants and defendants in error were plaintiffs in the trial court. We will refer to them as they there appeared or by name.

The long record in this case details controverted material facts showing in substance that one of plaintiffs, Thomas E. Fontecchio, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Tom, with the use of a radio detection instrument known as a scintillator, while prospecting on December 26, 1954, discovered a radioactive mineralized area containing uranium on Soapy Hill, near Hunky Dory Mountain, in Fremont County, Colorado. It is further disclosed that…