Opinion ID: 1359672
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Assessment Work.

Text: No attack was made on the assessment work done prior to June 30, 1950, and the only claim made is that the required assessment work of $100 per claim was not done during the years from July 1, 1950, to June 30, 1951, and from July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952. In fact the only year of vital importance is the year from July 1, 1950, to June 30, 1951, for the reason that appellants filed their notices of location on June 4, 1952. If defendants, their assigns and privies performed the work required of them up to June 30, 1951, then the location of appellants was premature and wholly void because the defendants and their privies had until June 30, 1952, to do their required work. That point was decided and fully discussed in Griffith v. Noonan, 58 Wyo. 395, 133 P. 2d. 375. The question before us has two phases, namely, (a) Whether the proper assessment work was done by defendants and their assigns and (b) Did the work done by the U.S. Government inure to the benefit of defendants and their assigns? If it did, then since it was stipulated that the Government did work of $100 on each of the claims in controversy, the proposition under (a) becomes immaterial. However, we prefer to discuss both (a) and (b).