Robbins v. Heritage Acres

The defendants-respondents, James Click, Sr., Eugene Weiss, and Oral (Orral) Lake, are residents of Montana doing business in Idaho as a mining partnership. They conduct a dredge mining operation upon unpatented federal public domain land within the St. Joe National Forest in Idaho under valid federal mining claims. The operation adjoins a section of Sherlock Creek, a tributary of the St. Joe River.