Rust v. McWilliams
District Court, D. Alaska
Plaintiff brings this action to replevin a 10-stamp mill of the Allis-Chalmers type, lying crated on the mining claims known as the Aurora Borealis properties, near Yankee Cove, in this division of the district of Alaska.
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Plaintiff brings this action to replevin a 10-stamp mill of the Allis-Chalmers type, lying crated on the mining claims known as the Aurora Borealis properties, near Yankee Cove, in this division of the district of Alaska. The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that he has been the owner of the machinery in question ever since the 11th day of July, 1905, which he asserts that he purchased on that day at an execution sale held at the point where the property in question lies, near Yankee Cove, the property having been attached by the United States marshal on April 3, 1905, in an action between…
1Opinion of the Court
GUNNISON, District Judge.
The facts, as disclosed by the evidence, seem to be as follows: These defendants were, on October 29, 1902, and for a considerable time prior to that-date, the owners of a group of mining claims known as the Aurora Borealis properties, situated some three or four miles from the beach of Yankee Cove. Some time prior to that date, and on-the 8th day of December, 1897, these defendants had given to one A. Nappack, of Portland, Or., a mortgage for $2,000 upon these properties. This mortgage was, on December 30, 1897, duly filed for record in the office of the rer corder…
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