Ames v. Sullivan

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

In an action of ejectment the plaintiff alleged that he was the owner of mining claim No. 32 above Allen’s Discovery on Kougarok river, Alaska, by virtue of a location made in January, 1902, and that in February, 1912, the defendant wrongfully ousted him. The defendant alleged that he was in the possession of a mining claim known as the Kshunti Fraction, which had been lo-' cated on July 25, 1903, and that, if the plaintiff’s mining claim overlaps the said Kshunti Fraction in whole or in part, the overlap is junior in time and inferior in right to the defendant’s title,…