Rickert v. Thompson

HILL, District Judge.

This suit was brought by the plaintiff to quiet her title to certain placer mining ground described in her complaint, to which she claims title based upon a location thereof made by her October 19, 1931, as creek claim No. 6 above Discovery, Cleary creek, in the Fairbanks recording precinct, Fourth judicial division, territory of Alaska. The evidence shows, and plaintiff admits, that a claim of the same name covering at least a major portion of the same ground was located in 1902 and was kept alive by compliance with the mining law relative to assessment work until 1928,…