Court Opinion

ID: 9444966
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:17:16.081923+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:05.012079
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
In their petition for rehearing, which in general is but a restatement of the contentions made in their original briefs, appellants assert that this court overlooked the fact that the trial court found the descriptions in the location certificates for three of defendants’ claims (three Beach claims) to be sufficient. They suggest that we should have held those claims valid.
This Court did not overlook the trial court’s exception as to these three claims but expressly referred to it. What appellants overlook is that we approved and sustained the trial court’s finding that appellants’ locations “were not sufficiently marked on the ground”. As we stated, the evidence would warrant belief by the trial judge that the asserted markings of the locations on the ground by Paper “were purely imaginary”. This finding alone required a judgment that none of appellants’ claims were valid for the reason that they were not, any of them, marked on the ground prior to appellee’s locations. The mere fact that the descriptions in the recorded location certificates of three of defendants’ claims may have been adequate was unimport*704ant, fomá locator may not acquire a claim merely by walking into the recorder’s office and filing a location certificate no matter -how perfect the description of the location may be.
Another portion of the petition again undertakes to challenge the validity of the trial court’s ruling that irrespective of possible defects in appellee’s location certificates that question was not involved in this controversy since such an objection was available only to a subsequent locator and that appellants were not in that position.
Appellants overlook the fact that this court’s opinion expressly stated that we went farther than the trial court and held that appellee’s location certificates were sufficient to satisfy the statutory requirements. Our decision was not dependent upon the point which appellants here attempt to raise.
The petition for rehearing is denied.