Richards v. Wolfling

Citations

• 98 Cal. 195
• 32 P. 971
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 886

Syllabus

<p>Mining Location—Validity—Lap upon Agbicultubal Claims—Sufficiency of Wobk on Pbivatb Land.—Where a mining location was so made that one half of it was included in the limits of an agricultural claim afterwards patented as agricultural land, and shortly after the location the agricultural claimants granted the locator the right to work the mine upon the agricultural claim, the location is not rendered invalid because a portion of it was upon land not open to location; and work done within the limits of the agricultural claim for the purpose of developing the mine, which could only be profitably worked by commencing there and working toward the part of the claim which was upon public land, must be deemed to have been done on the mine for the purpose of holding possession of the whole claim, as against a subsequent mining locator upon the public land.</p> <p>Id. — Relocation;—The owner of a mining claim may make a valid relocation thereof, and rely upon such relocation.</p>