RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a decree dismissing a complaint in equity. It appears from the amended complaint that prior to June 27, 1916, the appellant opened and improved a coal mine on the southwest quarter of section 34, township 22 north, range 7 east W. M., and was in actual possession thereof. On the latter date he filed in the local land office a coal declaratory statement, claiming a preference right of entry under section...
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