Brown

— This action was commenced in the superior court of the county of Stanislaus, in which two of the defendants resided.

It is alleged in the complaint, substantially, that in 1880 the plaintiff and the defendants Brown and Flaherty entered into a mining copartnership for the purpose of working mining claims situated in Tuolumne County, called the Green claims, and extensions thereof; that they actually engaged in working said claims and extracting mineral therefrom from said date until October 25, 1887, when Flaherty sold to the defendants Clark and Crittenden “ his interest in the above mine and claim and business, since which date said defendants Clark and Crittenden have with defendant Brown and this plaintiff been actually working said mine and claim and extracting minerals therefrom; that in the working of said mine and claim, . . . . as above, plaintiff has advanced and used to and for the defendants, and each and all of them; large sums of money, amounting to many thousands of dollars; that between the first day of January, 1881, and the twenty-fifth day of October, 1887, plaintiff advanced in the working of the mine and claim aforesaid, and in extracting minerals…