Rico-Aspen Consolidated Min. Co. v. Enterprise Min. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
In Equity. Bills by the Kico-Awpen Consolidated Alining Company and others against the Enterprise Mining Company. Injunction's pendente lite granted, and final decree for complainants in respect tp one of the claims in controversy. The relative position of the several claims on the surface is shown in the following diagram:
1Opinion of the Court
HALLETT, District Judge.
Complainants assert title to the ground in controversy under three locations, — one called “Vestal,” made in 1879; another, called “Contention,” made January 1, 1888; and the third, called “Compromise,” made November 18,1889.
These locations are in the general course east and west, and nearly coincident with the line of the Group tunnel, which is owned by respondents. One of complainants’ locations, — the Contention claim, —in its western end, comes upon the eastern extension of the tunnel; and the Compromise and Vestal, also owned by complainants, are adjacent on the…
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