Merchants' Nat. Bank v. McKeown
Oregon Supreme Court
From Grant: George E. Davis, Judge. This is a suit by the Merchants’ National Bank against David A. McKeown, Joseph McClernan and Thomas M. Ray to establish a right to a certain mining claim in Grant County, Oregon. There was a decree in the lower court for defendants and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Eakin.
This is a suit instituted to establish an adverse right to a mining claim, for which defendants have applied to the United States’ Land Department for a patent. The Golden Star claim is one of a group of mines originally owned by the Copperopolis Copper Company, in Grant *327County, Oregon, to whose title plaintiff has succeeded. On January 2, 1908, defendants relocated it as the Argonaut quartz mining claim.
It is conceded that the Copperopolis Copper Company did no annual labor, as required by section 2326, U. S. Rev. St. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1430), upon…
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