Gillis v. Downey
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. '
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
The appellant (complainant below) instituted suit in the United States circuit court for the district of Wyoming to quiet the title and determine the right of possession to certain lands containing placer mines. The complainant is a citizen of Illinois, and the defendant a citizen of Wyoming. The complainant at the institution of the suit was in the actual possession of the real estate.. The bill, in substance, recites that the lands in question are mineral lands, and were located as such in 1896 by the grantors of the complainant, and that the locations were made…
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