Northern Mining Corp. v. Cooke Mining Co.

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

Appellee brought this action to quiet its title to certain mining properties, and ob*11tained a judgment therein, from which this appeal was taken.

On July 10, 1918, Montana Scotch Bonnet Copper and Gold Mining Company, a Washington corporation, hereafter called Scotch Bonnet, was the owner of certain mining properties, and executed an instrument, hereafter called a contract, by which it promised to convey such properties to one McKay upon payment to it of certain sums on specified dates. The contract, also signed by McKay, among other things, provided:

“Time is expressly made…