Harvey v. Getchell

On the Merits

The complaint herein sought to quiet title in the original plaintiffs to certain mining claims, as against claims of defendants. The defendants answered by general denial, and affirmatively pleaded a defense of res judicata. Such defense was based upon the alleged facts that, in a former suit by L. M. Capps and Eliza*211beth Capps (the present plaintiff’s decedents) in the circuit court for Lane County, Oregon, against all of the answering defendants in the present suit or their predecessors in interest, the plaintiffs therein sought unsuccessfully to quiet title as against claims of…