Colman v. Clements

This is an action brought by four plaintiffs against eight defendants to recover the possession of the undivided five-thirtieths of a mining claim in Calaveras County. It appears that about the fifth of February, 1861, one Samuel Colman, with two others, took up and marked out 4,500 feet of a copper claim in the name of themselves and others, amounting to thirty persons in all. These names included the present plaintiffs and defendants. Some of these names were included without the previous knowledge or consent of the parties. Colman afterward sold out his interest to one of the plaintiffs,…