RANCHERS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CO. v. ANACONDA CO.

No. C 15-63.

248 F.Supp. 708 (1965)

RANCHERS EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT CO., a New Mexico corporation, Plaintiff, v. The ANACONDA COMPANY, a Montana corporation, Topaz Beryllium Company, a Utah corporation, W. T. Hudson, Lenard Rockwell and M. G. White, Defendants, Homer U. Petersen, Phill Rawlinson and Richard D. Moody, Intervenors.

United States District Court D. Utah, Central Division.

December 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin A. Behle, of Parsons, Behle, Evans & Latimer, H. Byron Mock and Kent Shearer, of Neslen & Mock, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff.

S. N. Cornwall and Clifford L. Ashton, of VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, and Robert G. Dwyer, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants The Anaconda Co. and Topaz Beryllium Co.

Thorpe Waddingham and Dudley Crafts, Delta, Utah, for defendants Lenard Rockwell and M. G. White, and for intervenors.


CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

The jurisdiction of this court properly has been invoked upon the basis of diversity of citizenship existing between the parties.

Defendants and intervenors1 are the claimants of numerous lode mining claims spread across an area of more than five square miles of public domain lying on the west flank of Spor Mountain in Juab County, Utah. Over some of these claims plaintiff Ranchers Exploration and Development...

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