Omar v. Soper’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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1. ““ The refeult of this review of the case upon the whole record is substantially to narrow the issues to the single question whether a claim of ownership to mining territory which has been appropriated by the discoverers of a lode therein, made in the manner and under the circumstances above stated, can be initiated by other persons, before default or forfeiture on the part of the discoverers, so as to make it capable of ripening into a valid title, and to answer the same in the negative.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Young

2. ““We observe, in the first place, that the record shows the claim of the appellees did not originate in this survey; and, in the second, that if it did it was invalid, for the reason that, under the mining laws and decisions, title to a lode in the actual possession of citizens who claim to own it, and who are engaged in developing it, cannot be initiated by other persons by a survey and the recording of a location certificate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Young

3. ““To hold that the miner, as soon as he discovers a lode, must immediately stake the territory which he is entitled to claim thereon, in order to protect it from the invasion and claims, of other persons learning of his find, would be an unreasonable, if not an impossible, requirement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Elwood v. Dickinson