Clipper Mining Co. v. Eli Mining & Land Co.

The plaintiff in error (defendant below) owns four lode mining claims, situate in Lake county, called the Capital, Clipper, Congress and Castle lodes, and the defendants in error (plaintiffs below) own the Searl placer mining claim, within the boundaries of which these lode claims are located. The present controversy relates to the territory thus in conflict. The placer was the prior location, and was made in the year 1877. The plaintiff in error having made application in the land office for patent of its lode mines, the defendants in error filed therein an adverse claim, and within the…