Wight v. Dubois

This ease eom.es before me on a petition for rehearing on an order of Judge Hallett, denying an injunction. The defendants have a patent, and therefore hold the legal title. It is beyond question that, as a matter of fact, they discovered mineral within the limits of their location. It is also beyond question that they complied with all the preliminary steps for obtaining a patent, iueluáingíhe 60 days’ publication of notice, and that no adverse claim was filed by the complainants or their grantors during the pendency of such publication. It also appears that after the publication of notice…