State ex rel. Mondale v. Hanna Mining Co.

Murphy, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the State of Minnesota and against the defendant, The Hanna Mining Company, for rentals accrued on a certain mining lease.

From the record it appears that on March 10, 1952, the state leased to Zontelli Brothers Inc. “that part of the lakebed of Jeune Lake, a navigable body of water both in fact and in law” located in Crow Wing County, described by lot and section numbers according to government survey. The purpose of the lease was to permit the “exploring for, mining, taking out and removing the iron ore found on or…