Wecht v. Anderson

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, C. J.:

Two cases, consolidated for trial in the district court, concern the ownership and right to possession of the Andies group of 21 unpatented mining claims in Lincoln County. The target of each case is a 78 year old Nevada prospector, Charles Anderson, and the heirs of his boyhood friend Rubin Robinson. The certificates of location for all of the Andies claims except one were recorded in the names of Anderson and Robinson, and the one claim in the name of Anderson alone. Accordingly, they assert ownership of all claims by reason of having perfected them in…