Eli Mining & Land Co. v. Carleton

CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by the Eli Mining & Land Company, a Colorado corporation, A. D. Searl, Mrs. F. C. Schroeder, Nellie M. Schroeder, A. S. Schroeder, John W. Schroeder, Mrs. Dora Ehlers, Mrs. Maria Dunhore, A. P. Britton, and H. J. Cray, plaintiffs in error, against S. L. Carleton, the defendant in error, to recover the possession of an alleged placer-mining claim in the California, mining district, in Lake county, Colo. By written stipulation of the parties a. jury was waived, and the cause tried before the court. After hearing the evidence and arguments of…