Cheesman v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““After tbis be sells to an bonest man, and. passes out of view or dies. All tbe subsequent workings go to sbow tbe existence of a lode or vein on tbe claim of more or less importance. Can it be that after tbe lapse of many years tbe assignee must lose bis claim because of bis inability to produce the lost or the dead, and prove affirmatively an actual visible discovery by the original locator oí ore in place where he dug? Possibly the charge in this particular would have been more theoretically correct, had the court told the jury that it was not necessary that defendants should establish such discovery by witnesses to the physical fact at the time. But the same might be inferred from the certificate of location, the manifestations of workings done, the long tenure of the claim, the development of a vein on the claim by subsequent working, and from all the surrounding circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ralph v. Cole