Kelley v. Boettcher
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
These are suits in equity for the cancellation of conveyances of mining property and an accounting for profits therefrom. Heard on preliminary applications for an injunction and the appointment of a receiver.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
The application which has been made in each of the above-entitled cases for an injunction and the appointment of a receiver for the Little Johnny lode mining claim is based upon bills of c'omplaint which contain collectively the following allegations: About the year 1880, Thomas J. Kelley and others located the Little Johnny mining claim, on Breece Hill, near Leadville, Colo. Thereafter, in November, 1886, Thomas J. Kelley died, seised of an undivided one-sixth interest in said claim, which interest, upon his death, became the property of the complainants in case No.…
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