Supreme Court of the United States November 25, 1889, 85 (Dahl v. Raunheim)

Mr. Justice Field

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action to quiet the title of the plaintiff below to certain placer mining ground, forty acres in extent, situated

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in Silver Bow County, Montana, of which he claims to be the owner, and in a portion of which the defendant claims to have some right and interest, and for which portion he has applied for a patent.