Philes v. Hickies

This is an appeal from the district court of the Second judicial district of Arizona in and for the county of Maricopa. The facts of the case are about these: Philes owned four certain mining claims, and a mill-site near them. He and Thomas H. Blair each owned an undivided one-half of another; and he, Blair, and Polhemus each owned an undivided third of another. These mining claims all lay, in a group adjoining each other, in the Cave Creek mining district aforesaid. Plaintiffs conveyed all their interests in these six mining claims to William W. Hickies, one of the defendants in this action,…