Kjelsberg v. Chilberg

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error brought an action against the plaintiff in' error to recover damages for breach of an agreement to lease to 'the defendant in error a certain placer mining claim belonging to the plaintiff in error. The complaint alleged that the parties to the contract had been co-*449partners in business at Nome, Alaska; that they dissolved their partnership, and in part consideration of the surrender by the defendant in error of his interest in the co-partnership business the plaintiif in error agreed to execute to him a lease of the mining claim for one year upon…