PRIESTLEY ETC. CO. v. LENOX ETC. CO.

No. 32016.

41 Wn.2d 101 (1952)

247 P.2d 688

PRIESTLEY MINING AND MILLING COMPANY, Respondent, v. LENOX MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

August 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Ward and W.W. Felger, for appellant.

Tracy E. Griffin, Kenneth P. Short, and Paul R. Cressman, for respondent.


OLSON, J.

Defendant has appealed in this forcible detainer action brought to obtain possession of eighteen mining claims. The claims were located by defendant in 1940, and are contiguous to a group of twenty-seven claims it previously had located and leased to plaintiff. The entire group of forty-five claims is situated in a mountainous area. They are located in five rows of nine claims each. Those in the most northerly and the most southerly rows are the eighteen...

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