UNITED STATES SMELTING REFINING & MINING CO. v. LOWE

Nos. 5493, 5494.

74 F.Supp. 917 (1947)

UNITED STATES SMELTING REFINING & MINING CO. v. LOWE. FIRST NAT. BANK OF FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, et al. v. SAME.

District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Fourth Judicial Division.

December 18, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Southall R. Pfund, and Charles J. Clasby, both of Fairbanks, Alaska, for plaintiffs.

Bailey E. Bell, of Fairbanks, Alaska, for defendant.


PRATT, District Judge.

This is a suit to quiet title in support of an adverse filed in the Land Office against defendant Lowe's application for patents.

The plaintiffs allege ownership of the "L Association" and "Snow Shoe Fraction", placer mining claims, by virtue of locations thereof in 1908. The defendant claims the ground in controversy by locations made in 1941, upon the theory (a) that the location certificates of plaintiffs' predecessors were insufficient...

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