Pincock v. Pocatello Gold & Copper Mining Co.

DONALDSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs-respondents, Kenton and Shirley Pincock, in a case involving a rather unusual ownership dispute over a group of six mining lode claims commonly known as the Lion Group Mining Claims, located northeast of the City of Pocatello. Pocatello Gold and Copper Mining Company, Limited (P.G. & C., Ltd.), incorporated in 1902 and defunct since 1921 because of its failure to file an annual statement and to pay its statutory fees, acquired a patent to this property (123.388 acres) in 1914, pursuant to patent number…