Empire State-Idaho Mining & Developing Co. v. Hanley
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR. THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. The defendant in error, complainant below, brought suit in the Circuit Court' of the United States for the District of Idaho against the Empire State-Idaho Mining and Developing Company and the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, appellants herein.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR. THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. The defendant in error, complainant below, brought suit in the Circuit Court' of the United States for the District of Idaho against the Empire State-Idaho Mining and Developing Company and the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, appellants herein. The bill filed July 27, 1904palleged diversity of citizenship as the ground of jurisdiction, and averred that the Empire State-Idaho Mining and Developing Company, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company and complainants are the owners and possessors, as tenants in…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Day,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the'opinion of the court.
In the brief and argument of the learned counsel for the plaintiff in error it is said: “The sole question in the case is whether, on the facts set up and pleaded in the answer, there was jurisdiction in the United States Circuit Court in the former suit to render the judgment quieting in the complainant Hanley title to one-eighth of all the ore b&dies found within the boundaries of the Skookum mining claim. The lower court thought the answer failed to show want of jurisdiction and sustained complainant’s…
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