Legal Opinion

White v. Crow

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 21, 1884No. 1224PublishedCited by 61 opinions

APPEAL PROM THE OIEOUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was a suit in, equity. • The facts disclosed by the pleadings and evidence were as follows': From September 1st, 1880, ■ until December 1st, 1882, the Brittenstine Silver Mining Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, was the owner of twelve mining claims and a tunnel site situate in Chaffee County, in the State of Colorado.

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APPEAL PROM THE OIEOUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was a suit in, equity. • The facts disclosed by the pleadings and evidence were as follows': From September 1st, 1880, ■ until December 1st, 1882, the Brittenstine Silver Mining Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, was the owner of twelve mining claims and a tunnel site situate in Chaffee County, in the State of Colorado. These claims were in a group, and some of them intersected and , overlapped ■ each other, and- the tunnel site extended across, them. John B. Henslee…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods

The first assignment of error which we shall notice is, that the Circuit Court erred in not declaring the judgment recovered by Joseph R. Crow against the Brittenstine Silver Mining Company void, first, because fraudulently obtained, and, secondly,. because the court was -without jurisdiction to render it.

We have been unable to find in the record any support for the contention that the judgment was fraudulently obtained. All the alleged facts set out in the bill on which the charge of fraud is based are clearly disproven by' the testimony. But if the Brittenstine Silver Mining Company were…

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