Jeffords v. Hine

This controversy as to a right of possession and ownership of a certain mining property in Tombstone mining district, Cochise county. The contention was commenced and continued for years in the land department of the United States, and has finally been transferred to the courts of this territory. It is not deemed necessary or important to refer with particularity in this case to the history of such controversy, so carried on, but simply to state certain well-established facts, which will explain our decision, and show upon what ground it rests.

In November, 1875, the plaintiff undertook to…