Rodriguez v. Oakley Valley Stone, Inc.

BOYLE, Justice.

In this appeal from a judgment of the district court quieting title to mining properties in respondent Lionel Rodriguez (designated plaintiff-intervenor in the district court), we are called upon to determine whether respondent was properly allowed into the action as a party plaintiff in an adverse claim procedure initiated under 30 U.S.C. §§ 29, 30 by a third party, Idaho Quartzite Corporation (designated plaintiff in the district court). Because the record is unclear on the preliminary procedural question of whether substitution under I.R.C.P. 25(c) or intervention under one…