Dougherty v. Creary

By the Court, Currey, C. J.:

The plaintiffs and defendants are the owners of a valuable mining claim at Sucker Flat in Yuba County, known as the “ Blue Point Claim,” connected with which is a flume known as the “ Blue Point Flume ” of about seven hundred feet in length,* extending through and from such claim toward the Yuba River. The same parties also own this flume. The undivided interests of the several persons constituting the parties to this action in said claim and flume áre as follows: The plaintiffs Dougherty and Lahey each own one seventh—the plaintiffs Beatty ’and Whalen jointly own…