UNITED PARK CITY MINES CO. v. ESTATE OF CLEGG

Nos. 18835, 18841.

737 P.2d 173 (1987)

UNITED PARK CITY MINES COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ESTATE OF Vernon H. CLEGG, Zula C. Brinkerhoff, Burk O. Clegg, personally and as personal representative of the Estate of Neil C. Clegg, TIDC, Inc., a corporation, Dawnette Schaffer Clegg, Carol Ann C. Zoellner, Verna J. Allgier, George V. Clegg, personally and as personal representative of the Estate of Vernon H. Clegg, Verdon C. Brinkerhoff, Leon D. Brinkerhoff, Dermont A. Brinkerhoff, La Verle C. Giles, Sandra London, Dorothy Clegg, Ted Clegg, and Boyd Clegg, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of Utah.

March 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Thornley, Ogden, for defendants and appellants.

Douglas L. Davies, Lowell V. Summerhays, Edward T. Wells, Alan L. Sullivan, Harriett Styler, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and respondent.


STEWART, Associate Chief Justice:

United Park City Mines Company (United Park) brought this action in district court to quiet title to nine patented mining claims in Summit County. Some of the defendants (the Cleggs) counterclaimed to quiet title in them. The Cleggs argued, among other things, that they had obtained title to the surface estate by adverse possession. At the close of evidence on the Cleggs' adverse possession claim, United Park moved for a directed...

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