We uphold the dismissal of the complaint for its failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, upon the ground that it fails to allege that the discovery of a State-owned "mine or mineral", which is the basis of the claims which plaintiffs assert against the defendant, was upon lands owned by the People of the State. Unless so situate, the statute under which plaintiffs claim (Public Lands Law, as enacted by L. 1909, ch. 50) accorded them no beneficial...
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