Gibson v. McReynolds

Defendants appeal from the judgment and from an order denying their motion for a new trial.

By his pleading G. R. Gibson alleged that he and the defendants had entered into “a special agreement whereby the plaintiff was to have a certain interest equivalent to that of defendants in certain placer mining claims to be located-upon unappropriated government land, under the laws of the United States in the county of Kern”; that thereafter, in pursuance of the agreement, defendants and their wives with J. A. Stroud, G. W. Derby, and their wives and the plaintiff made mineral locations upon certain…