Law v. Fowler

VARIAN, Commissioner.

This is an action in ejectment for possession of an unpatented mining claim. Appellant, plaintiff in the court below, alleged as a first cause of action that the Montezuma claim was her separate property; that she is now the owner and entitled to the possession thereof, except as to the paramount title of the United States; that on or about June 1, 1924, she was possessed of said property and had been in possession of the same for more than ten years immediately preceding said date, and worked and operated the same as a mining claim; that on or about June 1, 1924,…