San Miguel Consolidated Gold Mining Co. v. Bonner

The dispute is over a strip of mining ground claimed by plaintiffs and appellants as a parcel of the Happy Home placer, and by defendant (appellee) as a part of the Loopton lode mining location. The owner of the lode claim first applied for a patent, and appellants, as owners of the placer, filed in the United States land office their protest or adverse claim against the same, and seasonably brought this action in its support. Trial was to the court and jury, and a verdict was returned for defendant on which judgment was rendered, and plaintiffs are here with this appeal, urging as grounds…