Lowe v. Hess

PRATT, District Judge.

In this second affirmative defense, the defendant alleges that upon the 15th day of May, 1939, he duly filed in the United States Land Office at Fairbanks, Alaska, his application for patent to the claim known as the Harriett Belle placer mining claim, owned by him since July 2, 1928; that the said Land Office duly posted and published for sixty days a notice that such application had been filed, the last publication being July 15, 1939; that the plaintiff filed an adverse claim in the Land Office upon the 14th day of March, 1940, claiming to own the placer mining ground…