Thompson v. Barton Gulch Mining Co.

This is an adverse action involving a conflict in the mining locations of the plaintiff and the defendant, comprising fifty-three one-hundredths of an acre. The plaintiff rests his claim to the area in conflict upon a location by him made September 1, 1915, of “the Metalie quartz lode, mining claim,” and the defendant bases its right thereto upon a location made June 2, 1903, by its predecessors in interest,- of “the Marietta quartz lode mining claim.” The action was instituted to *195determine the conflict in consequence of the defendant having applied for patent to “the Marietta claim.” The…