Folsom v. McLaughlin

This case is the reverse of the one just decided. The Respondent applied to the Government for a patent to certain mining property. The Appellants are adverse claimants, and brought this suit at law to determine this adverse claim. The Respondents demurred to the complaint, and the principal ground of demurrer was that it should have been commenced upon the equity side of the Court, and was not properly a case at law.

The case was argued before me, while acting as the Judge of the Third District Court, during the temporary absence of my brother McKean.

At that time regarding these suits when…