EL PASO BRICK CO. v. McKNIGHT

No. 185.

233 U.S. 250 (1914)

EL PASO BRICK COMPANY, APPELLANT, v. JOHN H. McKNIGHT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 6, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis W. Clements, with whom Mr. Aldis B. Browne, Mr. Alexander Britton, Mr. Evans Browne, Mr. W.A. Hawkins and Mr. John Franklin were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Eugene S. Ives for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

McKnight brought suit against the El Paso Brick Company to try the right of possession to conflicting mining locations. In his complaint he asserted his own title and attacked that of the Defendant under locations older in date but which he claimed had been forfeited by failure to do the annual assessment work for 1903 and 1904, thereby leaving the land open to the locations...

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