Banfield v. Crispen

This is an action to recover the possession of nine certain mining claims in Douglas County to five of which the defendants, answering severally, claim to be entitled. The plaintiffs allege that one of them, H. W. Banfield, and one Henry Banfield, now deceased, were entitled at the death of the latter to the possession of the nine claims; that Henry Banfield died May 29, 1922, and the three plaintiffs are his sole heirs at law, succeeding thereby to his possessory title in the mines and that about December 30, 1922, the defendants entered upon the mining property without right or title and…