Yager v. Ring

WICKERSHAM, District Judge.

This suit is brought by the plaintiffs to recover from the defendant the sum of $6o,-ooo damages for an alleged trespass in forcibly entering upon placer mining claim No. 7 on Gold Run, and extracting and appropriating gold dust therefrom of that value, belonging to plaintiffs. It is alleged in the complaint that Yager located the claim on or about July i, 1900, complied with the law in the matter of staking and recording, and “after the location of said placer claim” by Yager conveyed certain interests therein to the other plaintiffs, no date being given. It is…