Show SMITHS LOCATION IS ILLEGAL Supreme Court Honda Hold U V S Mineral funeral Surveyor Cant Stake Sake Claims A deputy United States mineral land surveyor cannot take advantage a of his position tw lib such uch ad sad locate mining claims and secure a patent nt to them or orsell orsell orsell sell the patented un claim to another I for that purposes purpose t according to an opinion opinIon opinion ion handed down yesterday in the su au supreme supreme preme court in the ease of ot Giovanni Lavagnino no vs s Edmund H and andAI I IJ AI Alexander McKennan J Fewson Smith white a deputy deput j mineral surveyor it is alleged discovered discovered discovered ered a lode in the t district and sold it to thug staked off oft claim a which overlapped one end of the one olle staked out by Smith It was subsequently su discovered that Smith was a deputy leJ uty mineral land surveyor I and attacked the title of the Smith claim cla L He won his hia suit in Ia the district court and the supreme court yesterday confirmed that decision I In another decision the Salt Lake City Water A Electrical company won I Its tta second suit within a week eek against the city The first one ODe was waa over the ther right r of ot the company to use Ute the wa waters waters tera of Utah lake for power purposes The second involves the right of the company to condemn property belong belonging belonging ing to the city between Its plant and ant the canal from which it desire desi to w wi fI t ee i lure cure water The rite company es to condemn to enable it to dig a ditch front from the canal to Its electric light plant Both the district and supreme court ourt say MY It ht has bu the legal pl right to con condemn Condemn the land laad in III question qUN OD for that ape specific I purpose I |