Gold, Silver & Tungsten, Inc. v. Wallace

I am unable to agree with my associates in their reasoning or conclusions in the disposal of this case. The judgment of affirmance, and the opinion upon which it is founded, will, I am convinced, leave titles to mineral lands and rights of property open to attack and overthrow upon surmises and conjectures. Such titles and property rights acquired under the mineral laws should not be left subject to uncertainties, because they rest upon the word of the government, the grantor in all mineral patents.

It appears that defendants in error, who are the owners and in possession of the Gray Copper…