Legal Opinion
Shope v. Sims
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided February 4, 1983No. 6551PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COMPTON, Justice.
This case concerns a dispute over mining claims. Appellants Harold W. Shope and Loren C. Hite (“plaintiffs”) sued Appellees Harold Sims, Bruce Sims and Joel Sims (“Sims”), alleging that the Sims had staked mining claims where their valid claims were already located. The superior court found for the Sims on the ground that the descriptions on the recorded certificates of location for each of the plaintiffs’ claims were insufficient under AS 27.10.050.
On appeal, the plaintiffs contend that the judgment should be reversed on two grounds: (1) the superior court erred in…
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