Winters v. Burkland

This is a suit to quiet title to the possessory right to certain unpatented quartz mining claims. The principal questions involved upon this appeal are, first, whether in the location of a quartz claim which is otherwise regular and valid, the failure to include in the recorded location notice an affidavit reciting that the location work required by Section 7619, Or. L., has been performed upon the claim is fatal to the validity of the location; second, whether expenditures of money or labor upon one of a group of contiguous, unpatented, quartz mining claims owned in common will inure to the…