Legal Opinion
United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. v. Lowe
District Court, D. Alaska
Decided August 22, 1946No. Civ. No. 5483PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PRATT, District Judge.
This is an action to quiet title to the Snow Shoe Fraction on Fish Creek, Fairbanks Recording District, Division aforesaid. Plaintiff claims under a predecessor in interest who located the Fraction upon the 15th day of March, 1908. The defendant claims under a location of the ground in 1941. She attacks plaintiff’s complaint as not stating a cause of action on the ground that the location certificate filed in 1908 by the locator of the Snow Shoe Fraction was void, because it did not describe the claim by a reference to some natural object or permanent monument as would…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Sturtevant v. VogelCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1909
- Dripps v. the Allison's Mines Co.California Court of Appeal · 1919
- Sutherland v. PurdyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1916
3Cited by1 opinion
- United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. v. LoweDistrict Court, D. Alaska · 1947