Wigand v. Byrne's Unknown Heirs

(after stating the facts as above).

In the adjudicated cases there is dearth of precise definition of the nature of the work on a placer mining claim that will be accepted as meeting the requirement that .“not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.” It is held that the statute should be given a liberal construction, McCulloch v. Murphy (C.C.) 125 F. 147, and we find no case that holds that $100 worth of work done on a placer mining claim in good faith, in the belief that it will result in the development or improvement of the…