Andrews v. Ladd

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appellee brought a suit to foreclose laborers’ liens on the Corning claim, on Bourbon creek, in the Cape Nome mining and recording district of Alaska, one of which liens, it was alleged, had accrued in his own behalf, and the others on behalf of other claimants, who had assigned to him. The court below allowed four of the claims, and entered a decree enforcing the same against the mining claim.

The complaint alleged that the work was done in developing the claim, and the lien notices also contained the statement that the work was done in developing the claim. The…