Haynie v. Taylor

PHELPS, Justice.

In the year 1939 Dan H. Taylor and Ralph Schupbach, hereinafter called by their surnames, were ¡the owners as tenants in common of Chance Claims Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the Swisshelm mining district, Cochise County, Arizona. Ether Haynie, one of the plaintiffs herein, who will hereinafter be called Haynie, was the lessee of the Scribner group of mining claims adjoining the Chance Claims on the west. There were no usable shafts on the Scribner Claims but there were two shafts on the Chance Claims known as the old or lower shaft and the new or upper shaft in sufficient proximity…