Moore v. Rochester Weaver Mining Co.
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Humboldt County; Edward A. Ducker, Judge. Action by M. B. Moore and Robert H. Young against the Rochester Weaver Mining Company, a corporation, and F. M. Schick. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Coleman, J., dissenting in part.
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Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Humboldt County; Edward A. Ducker, Judge. Action by M. B. Moore and Robert H. Young against the Rochester Weaver Mining Company, a corporation, and F. M. Schick. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Coleman, J., dissenting in part. The respondents, by reason of having received the $2,500, the sum being one-half of the purchase price paid by Schick to Olson for all of the latter’s interest in the Weaver group, thereby estopped themselves from denying the appellants’ title. “It is well settled that a person shall not be allowed at once to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sanders, J.:
This was an action to quiet title and to remove a cloud from the respondents’ title to an undivided one-fourth interest in three contiguous lode mining claims, situate in the Rochester mining district, Humboldt County, Nevada, known as the “Weaver group.”
The main question to be considered on this appeal is, whether the respondents by their acts and conduct are prevented from asserting their title to the property in controversy as against the appellant company, which claims title to the whole of the property in dispute.
The appellant company, by its answer, set up two…
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