Evans v. Cowan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claimant has valid existing rights when it made a discovery of a valuable mineral deposit, as of the time of the relevant withdrawal
• explaining that if a mining “claim is not valid at the time of withdrawal it is not excepted from the effect of the withdrawal”
• “The function of the Government mineral examiner is ... to verify ... whether the claimant has, in fact, found a valuable mineral deposit.”
• “A mining claim does not create any rights against the United States and is not valid unless and until all requirements of the mining laws have been satisfied.”
• “When land is closed to location under the mining laws subsequent to the location of a mining claim, the validity of the claim cannot be recognized unless the claim was supported by a valid discovery at the time of the withdrawal.”
• “When land is closed to location under the mining laws subsequent to the location of a mining claim, the validity of the claim cannot be recognized unless the claim was supported by a valid discovery at the time of the withdrawal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).