Cameron v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Possessory title to a mining claim is acquired under the mining laws wholly independently of the Land Department. Such title has the quality of a grant and is property in the highest sense of the term. While, upon application for patent, the Land Department ex necessitate must pass upon the validity of the location, it does so administratively. and not judicially.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. Possessory title to a mining claim is acquired under the mining laws wholly independently of the Land Department. Such title has the quality of a grant and is property in the highest sense of the term. While, upon application for patent, the Land Department ex necessitate must pass upon the validity of the location, it does so administratively. and not judicially. In case it refuses patent, its action is not conclusive, final, or binding, even as to itself. 42 L. D. 584; 43 L. D. 79. Where the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice. Van Devajxtter
delivered the opinion of the court*
This is a suit by the United States to enjoin Ralph H. Cameron and others from occupying, using for business purposes, asserting any right to, or interfering with the public use of, a.tract of land in Arizona, approximately. 1500 feet long and 600 feet wide, which Cameron is claiming as a lode mining claim, and to require the defendants to remove therefrom certain buildings, filth and refuse, placed thereon in the course of its use by them ás a livery stable site-and . otherwise. In the. District Court there was a decree ior the…
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