BEST v. BIG JIM MINING COMPANY

No. 8438.

5 Utah 2d 304 (1956)

301 P.2d 560

HAROLD E. BEST AND EARL CRAIG, PLAINTIFFS AND RESPONDENTS, v. BIG JIM MINING COMPANY, A NEVADA CORPORATION, DEFENDANT AND APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

September 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin Arnovitz, Salt Lake City, Lawrence W. Steinberg, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellant.

Holbrook, Baucom & Wilkins, Salt Lake City, for respondents.


WORTHEN, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment, entered in an action tried to the court, adjudging that defendant had abandoned the assignment of a lease and enterprise with regard to a piece of mining property and had committed a forfeiture thereunder.

On the 5th day of June, 1953, plaintiff Harold E. Best obtained a mineral lease from the state of Utah, covering a school section for the mining of uranium and vanadium. The lease provided that actual operations...

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