Low v. Staples
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County, Hon. Richard Rising presiding.
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Appeal from a decree of the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County, Hon. Richard Rising presiding. This was a bill filed by C. L. Low against Alpheus Staples and others, in which the plaintiff alleges that Joseph Brown, one of the defendants, ivas one of the original locators of a mining claim now known as the Crown Point claim; that Brown sold his interest to one Brobant by bill of sale, Brobant to one Robinson, and Robinson to Lindauer and Fleishhacker, from whom plaintiff holds by several mesne conveyances; that Brown’s bill of sale to Brobant, and Brobant’s to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Lewis, C. J., full Bench concurring.
The appellants in this cause make two points upon which it is claimed the judgment in the Court below should be reversed.
First — That the plaintiff upon the trial failed to show, and the Court to find, that the plaintiff was in possession of the premises at the time the action was instituted; and, second: that as the suit was commenced in one of the District Courts of the Territory of Nevada, the State Court obtained no jurisdiction of it, and that the decree is therefore void. Were this, as claimed by counsel, a suit brought under Section 254 of…
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