Pidgeon

Plaintiffs filed this action seeking to quiet title to three placer mining claims. Defendant answered denying plaintiffs’ title and asserted title in himself. Judgment was rendered in favor of defendant quieting his title as against plaintiffs except as hereinafter noted. From this judgment plaintiffs appeal.

On March 25, 1911, A. R. Lendner and his associates, all citizens of the United States, went in and upon unoccupied and unappropriated mineral lands of the United States and located ten contiguous placer mining claims under the claim names of Sheep Creek Placer Mining Claims numbered 1 to 10, inclusive, constituting a consolidated group. The land at the time of entry had been duly surveyed by the United States government and the sections and legal subdivisions thereof were distinctly marked by said United States public survey so that the exterior boundaries of the sections and subdivisions thereof could be readily traced and the quarter-section corners thereof could be easily ascertained. All locations were according to and coincided with the legal subdivisions of the property, according to the United States public survey. Mineral in place, to wit, certain lime deposits of…