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WOLVERTON v. NICHOLS

119 U.S. 485 (1886)

WOLVERTON v. NICHOLS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 20, 1886.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward O. Wolcott for plaintiffs in error, submitted on his brief.

Mr. William Herbert Smith and Mr. Walter H. Smith (Mr. F.C. Ford was with them on the brief) for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The suit was brought in the District Court of that Territory to settle the controverted right to a patent from the United States for a placer mine, under §§ 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. It is therein enacted that a person who has located and set up a claim...

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