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WASKEY v. HAMMER

No. 84.

223 U.S. 85 (1912)

32 S.Ct. 187

56 L.Ed. 359

WASKEY v. HAMMER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 22, 1912.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Albert Fink, with whom Mr. W.H. Metson, Mr. Ira D. Orton and Mr. E.H. Ryan were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Albert H. Elliot, with whom Mr. George W. Rea was on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of ejectment, the subject-matter of which was the overlapping portions of two placer mining claims in Alaska, one known as the Golden Bull and the other as the Bon Voyage. The plaintiffs claimed the area in conflict as part of the Golden Bull, and the defendants claimed it as part of the Bon Voyage. The facts, as they must be accepted for present purposes, are these:

In 1902 the...

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