LOWRY v. SILVER CITY G. AND S. MINING CO.

No. 104.

179 U.S. 196 (1900)

LOWRY v. SILVER CITY GOLD AND SILVER MINING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 3, 1900.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. O.W. Powers for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Arthur Brown and Mr. H.P. Henderson were on his brief.

Mr. Charles S. Varian and Mr. F.S. Richards for defendant in error, submitted on their brief.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

This was plainly an attempt on the part of the plaintiffs in error — two of whom were lessees of the defendant in error — under the forms of law to appropriate to themselves property which for years had been in the unchallenged possession of the defendant in error, and upon which it had expended many hundreds of dollars. That such attempt was unsuccessful in the courts is...

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