Lowe v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

These are consolidated cases in which appellees sought and obtained judgment quieting their title to two placer *426raining claims situate in the Territory of Alaska. 74 F. Supp. 917, 11 Alaska 429. The claims had been located by appellees’ predecessors in interest in 1908. In 1941 appellant made placer locations overlapping all or the major portion of the ground covered by the earlier locations, and subsequently she instituted in the United States Land Office proceedings to obtain patent. Appellees filed adverse claims in the proceeding and supported them with these suits.…