L.E. Broadhurst v. Chester L. Whitelock and Vitro Minerals Corporation, a Corporation

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit brought by an individual claimant and his corporate lessee to quiet title to a group of eighty-eight unpatented mining claims in Utah. The defendant claims an interest in the property under two agreements between himself and the individual plaintiff. The trial court found the issues for the plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.

The individual plaintiff-appellee Whitelock located all but six of the claims in question and these locations were financed by one Evan Roberts, who is not a party. The locations were made in February, March and May 1958. Whitelock and…