HECLA MINING COMPANY v. ATLAS MINING COMPANY

No. 10149.

445 P.2d 225 (1968)

92 Idaho 476

HECLA MINING COMPANY (Substituted in place of Lucky Friday Silver-Lead Mines Company), a corporation, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ATLAS MINING COMPANY, a corporation and J.W. Greenough, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

September 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Reagan, Coeur d'Alene, and D.L. Holland, John A. Frankovich, R. Lewis Brown, Jr., Butte, Mont., for appellants.

Charles E. Horning, Wallace, Senior & Senior, Salt Lake City, Utah, Twitty, Sievwright & Mills, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellees.


McQUADE, Justice.

In the silver rich mining area of Shoshone County, Idaho, four of the most productive claims are popularly known as the Lucky Friday claims. These claims are: Lucky Friday; Lucky Friday Fraction No. 2; Northern Light; and Good Friday. All were located as mineral claims at different times between 1889 and the end of 1906. The three claims first mentioned were conveyed in 1906 to the Lucky Friday Mines Company, which also that year located the Good...

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