Fuller Ex Rel. Fuller v. Mountain Sculpture

CROCKETT, Justice.

A canyon exposure of blue-green quartzite rock, valued as building stone, is the prize over which these parties contend. Each claims to> have made prior valid mining locations on the area. The trial court found for the plaintiffs and defendants appeal.

The challenge to plaintiffs’ right to the property relates to claimed defects: in descriptions of the claims; indefiniteness of monuments; and in location notices.

In the latter part of 1954 plaintiff Glen E. Fuller discovered the stone mentioned above in a canyon known as Rock Canyon in northwestern Box Elder County. This…