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United States Of America Vs. Thomas D. Aitken, Et Al. 025 Phil 7

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by its Trustee, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. THOMAS D. AITKEN, VICENTE COBAS, F.C. FISHER, JAMES F. FISHER, W. F. FISHER, A.X. KELLOGG, J.W. STEVENSON, and J. R. WALDROOP, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 7952 | 1913-07-30

D E C I S I O N


TRENT, J.:

In this case the Government seeks to eject the appellees from a parcel of land located by them under the mining laws a placer mineral claim which according to their amended declaration of location, is "chiefly valuable for gravel, rock, building and construction material. "The court below continued the appellees in the possession of all the land covered by the amended declaration of location with the exception of the banks and bed of the Moriones River, which was held to be a navigable stream and not, therefore, susceptible to location as a mineral claim.

The dispositive part of the trial court's judgment...