Hodgson v. Midwest Oil Co.

KENNEDY, District Judge.

This is an action in ejectment, and therefore addresses itself to the law side of the court. The statement, of facts, as they may be gathered from the petition, purports to show that the plaintiff by purchase became the owner of an undivided one-eighth interest in a certain placer mining act claim known as “The Reif,” which claim it is alleged was discovered, located, and marked in accordance with’ the statutes in such case made and provided, in the year 1887 ; the lands being in what is now known as the Salt Creek oil field. It further appears that in’ 1910 other…