Eaton v. Norris

SMITH, C.

An appeal from a judgment against the defendants and from an order denying a new trial. The suit was to quiet title to two mining claims particularly described, and known as the Luella Quartz Mining Claim—and the Extension of the same. The former claim was located January 1, 1896, by the plaintiff; the latter by his wife, who conveyed to him prior to the beginning of the suit—he conveying to her an undivided half of his original claim. The defendants claim under a later location of date January 15, 1898; and their location, being subsequent to the act of March 27, 1897, “prescribing…