TAGS Realty, LLC v. Runkle
Annotate this CaseMark Runkle and TAGS Realty, LLC were the locators of several adjacent and overlapping mining claims. This case concerned a pile of mining waste that was located on both Runkle’s and TAGS’s claims. The mining waste contained gold deposits that were not economically viable at the time they were removed from an historic mine. By 2011, however, the deposits became valuable, and Runkle removed and sold all of the waste that year. Runkle also removed the waste located within TAGS’s claim. TAGS filed a complaint asserting trespass and conversion causes of action, alleging that Runkle was not entitled to remove the waste material located on TAGS’s claim. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Runkle. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the district court (1) erred in concluding that TAGS’s mining claim was not a property interest sufficient to support TAGS’s causes of action; and (2) erred by granting summary judgment on an issue never raised, addressed, or conceded by the parties.
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