Rundle v. Republic Cement Corporation

UDALL, Justice.

This is an appeal by Edgar Rundle, et al., defendants below, from a judgment entered in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Republic Cement Corporation, quieting its title to certain placer mining claims on unappropriated government land. The primary question presented is whether the evidence, taken in a light most favorable to plaintiff, sustains the findings of fact and judgment entered therein. The parties will be referred to as plaintiff or Republic, and defendants.

The plaintiff corporation brought this action to quiet its title, as against defendants’, to twenty-eight unpatented…