Legal Opinion
Ranchers Exploration and Development Co. v. Anaconda Co.
District Court, D. Utah
Decided December 22, 1965No. C 15-63PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.
The jurisdiction of this court properly has been invoked upon the basis of diversity of citizenship existing between the parties.
Defendants and intervenors 1 2 are the claimants of numerous lode mining claims spread across an area of more than five square miles of public domain lying on the west flank of Spor Mountain in Juab County, Utah. Over some of these claims plaintiff Ranchers Exploration and Development Co. attempted to locate claims of its own and to make mineral discoveries in support of such relocations. Defendants forcibly prevented the consummation of…
2Cases cited63 opinions
- Belk v. MeagherSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Cole v. RalphSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Book v. Justice Min. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nevada · 1893
- Chrisman v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Erhardt v. BoaroSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Mountain States Legal Foundation v. AndrusDistrict Court, D. Wyoming · 1980
- United States v. Billy Joe Bagwell Cynthia BagwellCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
- Columbia Standard Corporation, a Nevada Corporation v. Ranchers Exploration & Development, Inc., a New Mexico CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1972
- In Re Guidant Corp. Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability LitigationDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 2007
- Bixby v. Reynolds Mining Corp.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1992
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