LA ABRA SILVER MINING CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 29.

175 U.S. 423 (1899)

LA ABRA SILVER MINING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1899.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson for the La Abra Silver Mining Company.

Mr. William A. Maury, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for the United States.

Mr. Crammond Kennedy (upon whose brief were Mr. Wilson, Mr. John C. Fay and Mr. E.L. Renick) closed for the La Abra Company. His brief contained the following points, supported by the accompanying citations of cases.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

In the light of this history of the claim of the La Abra Company we proceed to the consideration of such of the principal questions presented in argument as are essential to the disposition of the case.

I. If, as insisted by the appellants, the above act of December 28, 1892, was not...

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