Likaits v. Johnson

Citations

• 5 Alaska 63

Syllabus

<p>Mines and Minerals <&wkey;14(2)—Location—Power op Attorney.</p> <p>By Act Cong. Aug. 1,1912 (37 Stat. 242, c. 269, § 2 [U. S. Comp. St. 1916, §, 5055]), it was provided “that no person shall hereafter locate any placer-mining claim in Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any recorder’s office in the judicial division where the location is made.” Held, where the locator makes a discovery of mineral within the boundaries of the claim, files and records a notice of location, marks the boundaries, so they can be readily traced, and files and records a power of attorney from his principal within the division, and does each of the acts before any other rights intervene or attach to the land, it is sufficient and the claim will be valid, as against subsequent locators and claimants, without regard to the order in which such necessary acts of location happen or are performed.</p> <p>(@csjSee same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>