Supreme Court of the United States December 3, 1900, 104 (Lowry v. Silver City Gold & Silver Mining Co.)

Mr. Justice Brewer,

after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

This was plainly an attempt on the part of the plaintiffs in error — two of whom were lessees of the defendant in error— under the forms of law to appropriate to themselves property which for years had been in the unchallenged possession of the defendant in error, and upon which it had expended many hundreds of