Finos v. Netherlands American Mortgage Bank

Respondent brought this action, on his own behalf individually and as assignee of five other claimants, to recover amounts alleged to be due for labor upon a mining claim performed by respondent and his assignors, of which mining claim the defendants were alleged to be, respectively, owner, lessors and lessees. The complaint alleged that the Netherlands American Mortgage Bank, a corporation, owned the fee, and that defendants Cashman and wife were contract purchasers from the bank, and the other defendants named in the complaint, and their respective wives, were lessees of the mine. Upon the…