Patterson v. United States

This case is here upon the Government’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s petition. We therefore summarize the allegations of the petition.

The plaintiff and her husband, to whose rights she has succeeded, were in possession of certain mining claims in Madera County, California, called the Jay Gould placer claim and the Riverside quartz claim. The Gould claim was located January 1,1906, and is 660 feet wide and 1,320 feet long and comprises a portion of the bed and banks of the San Joaquin River. The Riverside quartz claim adjoins it, and is approximately 1,500 feet long and 600 feet wide. It…