O'Donnell

Southern California Railway Co. v. O'Donnell

Good Law
1906 Cal. App. LEXIS 328·3 Cal. App. 382·85 P. 932
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaApril 4, 1906Civ. No. 185.California1,312 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Allen, J.

Action to determine adverse interests in real property. Findings and judgment in favor of defendant as to certain of the premises described, from which plaintiff appeals, as well as from an order denying a new trial.

The claim of defendant to the property is based solely upon a lode mining location. The finding of the trial court that defendant, ever since the spring of 1883, was and has been the owner of and in possession of a specific portion of the disputed premises can only be taken as impliedly finding that the mineral location was actually made in 1883 as alleged; that the land was mineral in its character; that the claim was properly monumented; that the annual work was done thereon as provided by law and the mining regulations; and that the claim was not abandoned. (Trevaskis v. Peard, 111 Cal. 603 , [ 44 Pac. 246 ].) Evidence appears in the record tending to the support of each of such implied findings and to the general finding to the extent of the ground covered by the mineral location; and upon this appeal we must accept those facts as established.

The principal contention of appellant is that, notwithstanding the entry and location of defendant’s mine, under the act…

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