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i·ious precinct assessments as it deemed proper. The act further directed that "the values to be given in said abstract shall be the valuations assessed by the assessor, and equalized and corrected as hereinbefore provided." Id. § 72. Moreover, the special finding of facts which was made by the trial court shows that tile levy of taxes for the year 1879, for state and county purposes, was made upon the basis of the abstract which was made by the county clerk, showing a total assessed valuation of $326,768. Under these circumstances, the abstract of the assessment which was certified by the county clerk to the auditor of the state would seem to have been the only authentic publicl'ecord showing the total assessed valuation, and upon that record a purchaser of the bonds in suit was entitled to rely. I also concur in the further views expressed in the opinion in chief.
REPUBLICAN MIN. CO. v. TYLER MIN. CO. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Oircuit. February 1, 1897.) No. 306.
1.
ApPRAI, AND ERROR-SECOND 'VHIT OF EHlWR-PRIOR DECISION.
Where a case has been brought before an appellate court, and there decided, a second writ of error brings up nothing for review but the proceed· mgs subsequent to the mandate; and the appellate court is not bound to consider any of the questions which were before It on the first writ of error.
2.
MINT';U LocNrloxs-ExTRALAT1':HAL HIGHTS.
When a lode enters an end line of a regularly located mining claim, and runs in its course lengthwise, nearly parallel with the side lines of the claim for the greater part of the length of the claim, the owners of the claim are not deprived of the extralateral rights attached to it because the lode crosses a side line before reaching the other end line, but the extralateral rights will extend from the end at which the lode enters to the point at which it crosses the side line, whether a new end line is regarded as being drawn at that point or not. Mining Co. v. Sweeney, 4 C. C. A. 329, 54 Fed. 284, and J.Jllst Chance Min. Co. v. Tyler Min. Co., 9 C. C. A. 613, 61 Fed. 557, reaf· firmed.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis· trict of Idaho. This cause was tried before the circuit court, a jury having been waived by stipulation of the parties, as provided by section 649 of the Revised Statutes, upon an agreed statement of facts, which will be found In Mining Co. v. Sweeney, 79 Fed. 277. to which reference is here made. The portion which relates particularly to this case, and is not copied in that case, Is as follows: "It is further agreed that the Republican Fraction mining claim was duly located on the 1st day of November, 1885, and that the said location, so far as the making sald discovery, marking said surface boundary, and recording such locations are concerned, was made In conformity with the law, and that the annual labor required by law has bt'en duly performed therein; that the vein discovered In the said Republican Fraction mining claim Is the same vein which passes out through the southerly side line of the Tyler claim. It Is agreed that the vein on which the said Tyler, Last Chance, and Republican Fraction claims are located passes on its said dip underneath the surface limits of the Last Chance Fraction and Skookum Fraction claims, as they are laid down in said diagram." The diagram referred to in the statement of facts will be found In Mining Co. v. Sweeney, 79 li'ed. 277.
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79 FEDERAL REPORTER.
The following diagram shows the relative positlon of the said claims upon which the lode is shown to pass, it being of the width of about 300 feet. It also shows the tunnels and works passing from the Tyler claim Into the Republican Fraction claim, and the slope from which the Tyler Mining Company has been, and now is, seeking to extract ore, within the lines of the Republican Fraction claim, and the dates of the respective locations.
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W. B. Heyburn, for plaintiff in error. John R. McBride, for defendant in error. Before GILBERT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and HAWLEY. District Judge. . HAWLEY, District Judge (after stating the facts). It is claimed that the court erred, among other things, in finding, as a conclusion of law: "That the plaintiff, the Tyler Mining Company, Is entitled to judgment against the Idaho Mining Company and the Republican Mining Oompany for the possession of those certain premises described in the complaint and in the agreed statement of facts, to wit, that certain ledge or vein In place bearing valuable minerals, having its outcrop and apex within the limits of the Tyler mining claim, as described in said agreed statement of facts, with the right to follow, as against the Republican and Idaho Mining Companies, such ledge or vein upon its descent into the earth to any depth between the two perpendicular planes continued in their own direction past through the two end lines of the Tyler claim, as the same is now described in the patent Issued by the United States for such claim, even though such vein shall extend outside the vertical side line of said Tyler mining claim, and under the Republican Fraction. the Last Chance Fraction, and the Skookum Fraction mining claims, claimed by said defendant the Republican and Idaho Mining Companies."
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REPUBLICAN MIN. CO. V. TYLER MIN. CO.
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The conclusions of law upon the agreed statement of facts are in harmony with the decisions of this court, as will hereafter more clearly appear. The contention of the plaintiff in error is that the defendant in error has no extralateral right to· follow the lode or vein in the Tyler mining claim in its downward course beyond the southerly side line of the Tyler claim, for the reason that, as is shown in the diagram, the lode or vein passes through the side line of the Tyler location. It is further contended that any rights which the defendant in error may have by virtue of its ownership of the Tyler claim must date from the establishment of "the intermediate end line first made on the ground after the commencement of this action." Both of these questions have been decided by this court adversely to the contention of plaintiff in error. It is well settled by numerous decisions of the supreme court that where. a case has been brought before an appellate court, and there decided, a second writ of error brings up nothing for review but the proceedings subsequent to the mandate; that the appellate court is not bound to consider any of the questions which were before the court on the first writ of error. In Roberts v. Cooper, 20' How. 481, the court said: "It has been settled by the decisions of this court that after a case has been brought here and decided, and a mandate issued to the court below, If a second writ of error Is sued out, It brings up for revision nothing but the proceedings subsequent to the mandate. None of the questions which were before the court on the first writ of error can be reheard or examined upon the second. To alIowa second writ of error or appeal to a court of last resort on the same questions which were open to dispute on the first would lead to endless litigation. In chancery, a bill of review Is sometimes allowed on petition to the court; but there would be no end to a suit if every obstinate litigant could, by repeated appeals, compel a court to listen to criticisms on their opinions, or speculate on chances from changes in Its members. See Sizer v. Many, 16 How. 98; Corning v. Iron Co., 15 How. 466; Rose v. Himeley, 5 Cranch. 515; Canter v. Insurance Co., 1 Pet. 511; The Santa Marla, 10 Wheat. 431; Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat. 804; and Sibbald v. U. S., 12 Pet. 488."
In Mining Co. v. Sweeney, 4: C. C. A. 329, 54 Fed. 284, and Last Chance Min. Co. v. Tyler Min. 00.,9 C. C. A. 613, 61 Fed. 557, this court decided that where a lode enters an end line of a regularly located mining claim, and runs in its course lengthwise, nearly parallel with the side lines of the claim for the greater part of the length of the claim, the owners of the claim are not deprived of the extralateral rights attached to the claim, under the provisions of section 2322, Rev. St., because the lode or vein crosses a side line before reaching the other end line; that the true construction of the statute is that, when the lode or vein crosses a side line before reaching the other end line, the owner's extralateral rights will extend from the end at which the lode enters to the point on the lode at which it crosses the side line. Numerous authorities were cited in support of these views. The following additional authorities sustain the .principles therein announced: Consolidated Wyoming Gold Min. Co. v. Champion Min. Co., 63 Fed. 540, 546; Del
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Monte Mining & Milling Co. v. New York & L. C. Min. Co., 66 Fed. 212,215. In reply to the criticism of counsel with reference to the right to draw the intermediate end line at the point where the lode crosses the southerly side line of the Tyler, we quote the language of Judge Hallett in Del Monte Mining & Milling Co. v. New York & L. C. Min. Co., supra, as follows: "It is said that we cannot make a new end line at the poInt of divergence or elseWhere, because the court cannot make a new location, or in any wa)? change that made by the parties. Iron Silver MIn. Co. v. Elgin Min. & Smelting Co., 118 U. S. 196, 6 Sup. Ct. 1177. 'rhis, however, Is not necessary. We can keep within the end lines fixed by the locator in respect to any extralateral right that may be recognized without drawing any line; and, if there be magic in the word 'line,' it will be better not to use it."
In Last Ohance Min. Co. v. Tyler Min. Co., 157 U. S. 683, 696, 15 Sup. Ct. 733, the .court declined to consider this question, because, under the views expressed by the court upon another branch of the case, it was deemed unnecessary so to do. There is no decided case to which our attention has been called in opposition to the views heretofore expressed by this court upon the questions involved in this case. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed) with costs.
HENDERSON v. WANAMAKER. (CIrcuIt Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. March 1, 1897.) POSSESSION BY THIRD
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Possession of lamls by a third party at the time of sale is notice to the purchaser of every defect In and defense to the vendor's title-which said third party could make, Including a prior unrecorded deed by the vendor to 'another. A purchaser of lands from a plaintiff In ejectment, pendIng the suIt, is chargeable with notice of an outstanding unrecorded deed from the vendor to another, which the defendant would be entitled to introduce as a defense under the pleadings.
2. SAME-LIS PENDENS.
8.
EJECTMENT-Pr,EADING-GENERAL DENTAL.
which defendant may be ignorant, but may introduce nnder his general denial any evidence that will defeat it. 4. SAME-ADMISSIONS.
to a title which the plaintiff does not disclose in his complaint, and of
The defendant in ejectment is never requIred to plead specific defenses
The admissions of a grantor against his Interest, made while he held all the title that his grantee has acquired or relied upon, are al,,"ays admissible against the latter, unles's he is protected as an innocent bona fide purchaser.
5.
SAME.
A defendant In possession may defeat a recovery by a plaintiff in ejectment who relies upon his title, by proof of an outstanding title in a third person, and such outstanding title, while it must be subsisting and valid as against plaIntiff at the time of the trial, need not .be so as against the defendant.