Jones v. Wild Goose Mining & Trading Co.

HUNT, District Judge.

This is an action in ejectment brought by defendants in error, plaintiffs below, to recover possession of a certain piece of placer mining property in Alaska, and for damages.. There is no substantial conflict in the evidence as to the material facts: On the 1st day of January, 1901, Harry M. Ball located the Navajoe placer claim, which, by the notice of location, and the recorder’s certificate, contained a tract of land 1,320 feet long and 660 feet wide, i. e., an area of just 20 acres; but, as actually marked upon the ground by the boundary stakes, there was by…