J. E. Riley Inv. Co. v. Sakow

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, defendants below, and hereafter so named, appeal from a judgment in ejectment against them, the jury also awarding damages to appellee, plaintiff below, hereafter so named, for trespass in dredging gold from plaintiff’s “Good Hope” placer mining claim on Otter Creek, a tributary of the Iditarod River, Alaska.

Defendants’ answer denied plaintiff’s allegation that he owned the Good Hope claim; that defendants had trespassed on it, and that they had dredged the gold therefrom. The answer also alleged as an “affirmative defense” that Riley Investment Company was…