Supreme Court of the United States December 10, 1917, 81 (Kirk v. Olson)

Me. Justice Van Devantee

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit to quiet the title to a small tract of land in South Dakota which had been the subject of conflicting claims under the public land laws.' One claim was made under the placer mining law and the other under the homestead law. Both claims embraced other lands, the tract in question being all that was common to both.