Walker v. Lightfoot

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

Appeal is taken from an order and decree adjudicating title to a power plant and certain personal property to be in appellee.

In 1902, Collin Brothers, Engle & Ford, a partnership, owned a group of patented quartz mining claims known as the Blackbird-Enterprise claims and a placer claim known as the Noble Placer claim situated about 2 miles west of the Blackbird-Enterprise group in Idaho. During that year and the following year, the firm constructed a hydro-electric power plant on the Noble claim at a cost of about $8,000, together with a transmission line from the Noble…