Peca v. Huddleston
District Court, D. Alaska
This action is before me on a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against the defendants or either of them.
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This action is before me on a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against the defendants or either of them. The defendants present for the consideration of the court the following objections, to wit: That the description of the property sought to be charged with the lien is not sufficient for identification, in that the name of the claim “bench placer mining claim situate on left limit of No. 21 Goldstream creek,” Fairbanks precinct, Fourth judicial division, territory of Alaska, fails to identify the…
1Opinion of the Court
BUNNELE, District Judge.
In the staking of placer mining claims in Alaska, the locators have sought to have the name given to a claim contain a description of it with reference to the Discovery claim. With Discovery as the initial claim, descriptive names such as “No. 1 above Discovery,” “No. 1 below Discovery,” are sufficiently accurate. Coming, then, to the claims adjoining those located in the creek bed, on *242either side, we find the descriptive words of “bench” and “right” or “left” - limit, as the case may be. Those claims adjoining the line of claims following the thread of the creek bed…
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