Florence-Rae Copper Co. v. Iowa Mining Co.

Citations

• 105 Wash. 503
• 178 P. 462
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 598

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel (18, 54)—Mining Claims—Permitting Improvements. A mining company, holding only an inchoate title and right to the possession of mining claims, susceptible to abandonment, is estopped to assert title where it had knowledge at the time of an attempted relocation and stood by two years while the relocators expended a large amount of money in development and disclosed a body of ore, and made no claim until the first car of ore was shipped.</p>