Haynes v. Briscoe

The title to two mining claims, the Bull Domingo and the Bull Domingo No. 2, is involved in this controversy. George Cole Briscoe, the plaintiff, owned sixty-four ninetieths of the claims, and in 1896 conveyed to his co-owner Haynes nineteen ninetieths in payment, so he alleges in his complaint, for assessment work done on the claims by Haynes for the year 1895, and to be done for the year 1896. In January, 1897, Haynes caused to be published in the Pitkin Miner, a newspaper published at the town of Pitkin, a notice of forfeiture because of the alleged failure of Briscoe to contribute his…