Rickard v. Thompson
Decision Date | 29 August 1934 |
Docket Number | No. 7303.,7303. |
Citation | 72 F.2d 807 |
Parties | RICKARD v. THOMPSON. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Chas. E. Taylor, of Fairbanks, Alaska, for appellant.
Louis K. Pratt, of Fairbanks, Alaska, for appellee.
Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and GARRECHT, Circuit Judges.
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the above-named District Court against appellant, who was the plaintiff in the lower court, and in favor of the appellee, Nellie Thompson, who was defendant therein, in an action brought by appellant to quiet title to a certain placer mining claim. The following findings of fact and conclusions of law were made by the District Court:
Findings of Fact.
Finding III which refers to attorney's fees and costs omitted.
Conclusions of Law.
"That as Conclusions of Law the Court finds that the defendant Nellie Thompson is entitled to a decree that at the time of the commencement of this action, ever since and now, she was and is the owner of an undivided one-half (½) interest in the lower half of the mining claim described in paragraph One of the Findings of Fact as above set forth, and that the defendant Jesse Noble was the owner of the upper half of said claim and an undivided one-half interest in the lower half thereof, and that the plaintiff Rose Rickard had no title to the said ground of any kind or nature and that the defendant Nellie Thompson is entitled to a decree quieting her said title to her undivided one-half (½) interest in the lower half of said mining claim as against the plaintiff and also against her co-defendant Jesse Noble, and that both the plaintiff and the defendant Jesse Noble be enjoined from in any wise interfering with her quiet and peaceable possession and use of her said undivided one-half interest in the lower half of said claim, and, further, that defendant Nellie Thompson is entitled to a money...
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