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CHOURNOS v. UNITED STATES

No. 7507.

335 F.2d 918 (1964)

Nick CHOURNOS, Dorothy Chournos, Samuel N. Chournos, Janice R. Chournos, Milton A. Oman and Virginia S. Oman, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Department of the Interior and Robert D. Nielson, its State Director, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

August 28, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance for appellants (Milton A. Oman, Salt Lake City, Utah, filed a brief for appellants).

Elizabeth Dudley, Atty. Dept of Justice (Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., William T. Thurman, U. S. Atty., Parker M. Nielson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Salt Lake City, Utah, Roger P. Marquis and Edmund B. Clark, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The appellants are original locators of placer mining claims in Utah, pursuant to the mining laws of the United States. The United States Department of the Interior, through administrative proceedings, found that there had been no valid discovery of minerals on the claims, and declared them to be invalid and of no effect.1 This action was brought for a review of the Department's decision because of erroneous action by government...

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