Schlegel v. Hough

The plaintiff instituted this suit for the purpose of quieting title to an unpatented placer mining claim known as The Last Chance, situated in the Galice unorganized mining district in Josephine County, ownership and possession of which claim in him is alleged in his complaint. The answer, denying plaintiff’s ownership, alleged that plaintiff had forfeited the claim by failing to perform assessment work or annual labor thereon, as required by the laws of the United States; that he had failed to take advantage of an act of Congress excusing performance of such annual labor; that, on July 1,…