Bigelow v. San Juan Gold Co.

The plaintiffs have appealed from that portion of a judgment which quiets title in the defendant, San Juan Gold Company, a corporation, to several contiguous unpatented placer mining claims situated in Nevada County. After the claims were separately located prior to 1872, they were purchased by the defendant in 1906, and consolidated for the purpose of mining operations. They are designated as “Union Lot 59A” and contain 192.32 acres of land. Assuming that these claims had been forfeited by defendant’s failure to perform assessment work in certain specified years, of the value of $100 on each…