Silver Bow M. & M. Co. v. Clark
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Second District, Silver Bow County. This was an action in the nature of an action of ejectment on the part of the respondents to recover the possession of certain real estate claimed by respondents as part of the Pawnbroker lode, and by the defendants as part of the Butte town site; the said premises being lots, streets and alleys in said town site.
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Appeal from Second District, Silver Bow County. This was an action in the nature of an action of ejectment on the part of the respondents to recover the possession of certain real estate claimed by respondents as part of the Pawnbroker lode, and by the defendants as part of the Butte town site; the said premises being lots, streets and alleys in said town site. The appeal is taken by two of the parties defendants, interested in the judgment herein, namely, the city of Butte and Edwin H. Irvine. The appeal is on the judgment roll. The final judgment is deemed excepted to by the defendants.…
1Opinion of the Court
Wade, O. J.
This is an action in the nature of ejectment, in wiaich the respondent seeks to recover the possession of a certain mining claim location known as the Pawnbroker lode claim, situate in Summit Valley mining district, Silver Bow county, claimed by appellants as a part of the Butte town site. There was but little controversy at the trial as to the facts, which, in substance, are as follows: That the Pawnbroker mining claim was located and claimed on the 16th day of November, 1875, *407on what was then the public and unappropriated mineral lands of the United States; that at the time of…
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