Spalding v. Martin

ROSS, Circuit Judge.,

This suit was commenced in the court below by the present appellee, for himself and as assignee of 13 other laborers, to foreclose liens on the Soo quartz mining claim, one of a group of such claims owned by the Reliance Mining Company, a corporation, and situate in the Fairbanks mining precinct of the territory of Alaska. The complaint contains 27 causes of action, 13 of them being based upon the labor alleged to have been performed by the plaintiff and his assignors during a period commencing in July, 1913, and ending October 8, 1913, and 13 for like labor alleged to…