Legal Opinion

Noyes v. Mantle

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 14, 1888No. 242PublishedCited by 41 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME .COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA. Bill in equity, to quiet title. Decree of perpetual injunction against defendants, from which they appealed to the, Supreme Court of the Territory. The decree and judgment being affirmed there, they appealed to this court. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field

This is a suit in equity to determine the adverse claims of the defendant below, appellant here, to" a certain quartz lode mining claim, known as the Pay Streak lode in Summit Talley Mining District, in the county of Silver Bow, in the Territory of Montana. The plaintiffs below assert title to the claim as grantees of Daniel Zinn and John O. McEwan, who dis-' covered and located it on the 23d of April, 1878, under the provisions of the act of Congress of May 10, 1872, 17 Stat. 91, c. 152, which are reenacted in the Devised Statutes, Title 32, c. 6.

The defendant below asserts title to the lode…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Belk v. MeagherSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Reynolds v. Iron Silver Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  3. Iron Silver Mining Co. v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  4. Sullivan v. Iron Silver Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1883

3Cited by41 opinions

  1. Manuel v. WulffSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Iron Silver Mining Co. v. Mike & Starr Gold & Silver Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. McKinley Creek Mining Co. v. Alaska United Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
  4. Migeon v. Montana Cent. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1896
  5. Sullivan v. Iron Silver Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1892

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