Before Justices Hardesty, Parraguirre and Cherry. Opinion by Justice Cherry.
This appeal arose out of a district court order in an action to quiet title, in which the district court apparently held that Pumpkin Copper’s title to certain unpatented federal mining claims was superior to Majuba Mining’s title. Sometime after Majuba Mining initiated the appeal, the Bureau of Land Management determined that Majuba Mining had forfeited the mining claims because it failed to pay the annual claim maintenance fees required under federal law. Accordingly, because Majuba Mining no longer had an interest to protect in a quiet title action, the legal controversy regarding superior title that had existed at the beginning of the litigation was no longer at issue. Dismissed as moot. (Patrick Murch, Associate in the Las Vegas office of McDonald Carano Wilson).
