Steele v. Preble

The complaint, in the form commonly employed in actions of ejectment, avers:

“Plaintiffs are the owners of, and entitled to the immediate possession of, those certain placer mining claims situate in Section 22-23-26 and 27 of Township 40 S. Range 7 West of the Willamette Meridian in Josephine County, Oregon, and in the Althouse unorganized' Mining District in Josephine County, Oregon, along Run Gulch, and particularly described as follows: ‘Big Jasper No. 1, as described in the location notice thereof, recorded on Page 513, Yol. 25, Mining Records of Josephine County, Oregon,’ * * *”

'Then…