Koprivica v. Sather

PRATT, District Judge.

The question here raised is whether or not the owner of a placer mining claim in Alaska can resume work thereon aftér failing to perform the annual assessment work required by law and thereby thwart a relocator who has initiated his rights after such resumption and completion of $100 worth of work per single claim.

The year of failure to do assessment work alleged is the annual labor year commencing July 1, 1938, as extended by 53 Stat. page 991, to September 1, 1939. The defendants, in each of the two annual labor years following the year of said default, performed the…