Donaldson v. Henning
District Court, D. Alaska
The above-entitled actions, which were consolidated for purposes of trial, were to foreclose separate liens for labor claimed upon a dump or mass of mineral-bearing sands, gravels, earth, and the minerals therein, on the upper part of the Wild Goose Association placer claim on Engineer creek, in the Fairbanks precinct.
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The above-entitled actions, which were consolidated for purposes of trial, were to foreclose separate liens for labor claimed upon a dump or mass of mineral-bearing sands, gravels, earth, and the minerals therein, on the upper part of the Wild Goose Association placer claim on Engineer creek, in the Fairbanks precinct. On February 15, 1911, R. Donaldson, claiming a lien for labor performed by himself, and as the assignee of five others, began an action against H. M. Henning, defendant, in the justice court for the Fairbanks precinct, to recover the amounts claimed in the various lien notices…
1Opinion of the Court
FUELER, District Judge.
The first contention of the defendants is that the lien claimants are at most entitled to a lien only upon the small dump of unwashed gravel, and upon that only to the extent of the amount of their labor for the time actually taken to hoist this dump, and that, at most, this cannot be more than two or three days for any of the claimants., It is further contended that as the evidence does not show, on the part of any claimant, the actual time he was employed while this dump was being hoisted and placed on the surface, there is no evidence to show the amount in which any…
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