Anderson

Action to quiet title to certain quartz mining land situated in Lassen county. The court found that plaintiff, on February 1, 1901, attempted to locate a quartz mining claim on Hayden Hill, Lassen county, to be known as the “Greenback Quartz Claim,” but that at the time the claim was not open to location; that defendants and their grantors had a prior, existing, valid location upon the mining claim described in the complaint ; that defendants and their grantors located and have been in possession and worked the said mining claim continuously since August 8, 1893, “ except a triangular strip along the west side of said mining claim thirty feet in width at the south end, and thence tapering to a point at the north end, the said mining claim being known as and called the Mt. Hope Quartz Mining Claim”; that on September 18, 1900, defendants herein and their grantors, for the purpose of acquiring said described triangular strip of land along the west side of the said Mt. Hope quartz mining claim, relocated the said described mining claim and included therein the said triangular strip of land along the west side of said claim, the said claim as relocated being the mining claim set forth…