Bloom

This action was brought for the purpose of dissolving a copartnership alleged to exist between the plaintiff and the defendant Grant, said partnership being in regard to the ownership, working and development of the Red Hill and Cash hydraulic placer mines, situated in Siskiyou county, and to have it adjudged that the contract made by said Grant with the defendant corporation (under which the corporation is alleged to be in possession of the mining property, and claiming to own the same, and is alleged to be working same) is void as to this plaintiff, and that the said corporation be required to account for the value of all the minerals extracted by it from the said mine. The complaint prays that a receiver be appointed, and that it be decreed that the contract made between defendant Grant and the defendant corporation is void.

On motion of defendant Grant, accompanied by a demand and affidavit of merits as to Grant, the place of trial of the action was ordered changed from the city and county of San Francisco to the county of Sonoma, that being the county in which said Grant resides and in which he resided at the time of the commencement of the action. This appeal is from the…