Bender v. Lamb

TURRENTINE, J., pro tem.

This is a companion ease to Pidgeon v. Lamb, ante, p. 342 [24 Pac. (2d) 206], this day decided, and the facts are very similar. Plaintiffs sued defendant to quiet title to certain mining claims. Defendant denies plaintiffs’ title and asserts title in himself and the trial court gave judgment quieting title to the claims in defendant. Plaintiffs appeal.

In 1911 defendant’s predecessors located Sheep Creek Claims 1 to 10, inclusive, as placer mining claims where the United States survey had been extended over the land embraced in the locations by the legal subdivisions…