BUNKER CHANCE MINING COMPANY v. BEX

No. 9673.

408 P.2d 170 (1965)

BUNKER CHANCE MINING COMPANY, an Idaho Corporation, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Harry L. BEX, a single man, Caledonia Silver-Lead Mining Company, an Idaho Corporation, United Mines, Inc., an Idaho Corporation, and Yreka United, Inc., an Idaho Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

November 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene F. McCann, Wallace, James P. Keane, Kellogg, for appellants.

Thomas A. Mitchell, Coeur d'Alene, for respondent.


TAYLOR, Justice.

Prior to 1945, the plaintiff (respondent) was the owner of Moltki, Idaho, Wardner (1914), Speredon, Lovchen, Smolnik, and Smolnik Fraction, unpatented lode mining claims located in the Yreka mining district in Shoshone county. The foregoing group of claims is hereinafter referred to as plaintiff's claims.

In April, 1946, one Harry L. Bex located a group of claims covering the same land embraced in plaintiff's claims. The Bex claims are hereinafter...

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