Cranes Gulch Mining Co. v. Scherrer
137 Cal. 606
| Cal. | 1902

This is an appeal by defendants from an order denying their motion for a new trial. The defendants also took an appeal from the judgment, which appeal has been decided by this court, the judgment being affirmed. (Cranes Gulch Mining Co. v. Scherrer,134 Cal. 350.1) The decision in the latter appeal is determinative of the present appeal adversely to appellants. The action is to quiet title to a certain patented placer mining claim; and appellants' defense rests entirely upon the asserted facts that since the date of the patent to the placer claim they located certain quartz claims within the lines of the placer patent; that the *Page 607 lodes upon which they made their locations were known to exist at the date of the patent; and that therefore under the act of Congress of May 10, 1872, their said quartz locations are excepted from the patent to the placer mine. But although respondent's patent was issued a few months after the passage of said act of Congress, application for the patent and final proof, payment, and entry were before the date of that act; and for this reason it was decided in the appeal from the judgment above referred to that respondent's right to his placer claim was not affected by the said act of 1872, but was governed by the law as it stood at the time of payment and entry, under which the title was complete and free from any exception of lodes, veins, or rock in place within the patented lines, whether known or unknown at the date of the patent. This being so, all other points made by appellants on the appeal from the order denying their motion for a new trial are immaterial.

The order appealed from is affirmed.

Henshaw, J., and Temple, J., concurred.

1 86 Am. St. Rep. 279.