Case Name: THE FRANK G. & S. M. CO. v. THE LARIMER M. & S. CO.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1881
Citations: 1 Colo. L. Rep. 495
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE FRANK G. & S. M. CO. v. THE LARIMER M. & S. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 495–496

Head Matter:
THE FRANK G. & S. M. CO. v. THE LARIMER M. & S. CO.
(In the United States Circuit Court, District of Colorado
—Transferred from the District Court of Lake County—Motion to remand.)
Removal of Cause from State Court—Cases Arising under the Laws of the United States. Actions upon an adverse proceeding to prevent the issual of patent for a mining claim, are cases arising under the laws of the United States, and may be removed from the state to the United States courts for trial.

Opinion:
Miller, J.
The defendant made application for patent for a mining claim in Lake county, to resist which plaintiff filed in the land office an adverse claim, and thereupon filed complaint in the district court for Lake county.
Wells, Smith & Macon, attorneys for plaintiff.
T. A. Green, attorney for defendant.
Defendant, after answer, filed a petition for a removal of the cause to the circuit court of the United States, on the ground that the subject matter of the action arises under the laws of the United States, and the case was removed accordingly.
This hearing is of a motion to remand the cause to the state court for trial. The act of Congress of March 3, 1875, provides that the "United States circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction of the subject matter of all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States." It is impossible that such an action as this can be determined without reference to, and involving a construction of the mining laws of Congress. The questions involved necessarily arise under the laws of the United States; and hence, this court has original jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action, and the case was properly removable. The motion to remand must be denied.