Fariss v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co.

PRAY, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity to quiet title, and involves the validity of a tax deed and other claims to mining property described in the complaint and known as the Golden Rule Lode Claim, situated in Silver Bow County, State of Montana.

Certain facts were stipulated by counsel for the respective parties which considerably shortened the hearing. The plaintiff obtained his tax deed, on May 16, 1908, to the above-named mining claim. The record shows that an undivided one thirty-second interest in said claim was conveyed to plaintiff on December 31st, 1908, by Patrick Mullins and…