Vernon

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment awarding the plaintiff the sum of $1,650 damages, for and on account of four causes of action, two for unlawful arrests and two for malicious prosecution. It appears from the transcript that, on or about the third day of January, 1918, the plaintiff, W. P. Vernon, with others, located a certain placer mining claim named the “Questionnaire” situated in Plumas County, state of California; that in this location notice the claim was described as being situated in range 11 east; in October of the same year, upon having a survey made of the claim, it was discovered that the claim was really situated in range 12. Thereupon, and on the ninth day of that month, a new location was posted and recorded correctly describing the range in which the claim was situated. It also appears that from the date of the original location the plaintiff continued in possession of said mining claim, performed annual work thereon, and proceeded to some extent with the development thereof. This work was continued from time to time by the plaintiff down to the time of the occurrences constituting the gravamen of this action. Some time between the third day of…