Chynowitch v. Granby Mining & Smelting Co.

This was an action oí unlawful detainer for the recovery of the possession of a mining lot on land belonging to defendant, which being tried in the court of common pleas in Jasper county, where the cause was pending on appeal, the plaintiff had judgment, from which the defendant has appealed.

It appears from the record that plaintiff' had been mining on said lot for about six months with the consent of defendant until April, 1878, when defendant’s superintendent ordered him to quit work, and set some other men to work on said lot, thereby compelling him to quit. The defendant claimed that the…