Willeford

This is an action to quiet the plaintiff’s title to a quartz-mining claim, which is described by metes and bounds, and as being fifteen hundred feet long and six hundred feet wide, and called the “Starlight Quartz Mine.” The complaint is in the usual form, averring that the plaintiff is the owner and in possession of the said mine, and that the defendant claims some right, interest and estate therein, but that he has no such right, title, interest or estate whatsoever. The defendant by his answer, disclaims having any right, title, claim or interest in or to the land described in the complaint, except to so much thereof as is included within certain described boundaries, and called the “Northern Light Mine.” The boundaries mentioned are six courses, extending from a fixed starting point to the place of beginning, and having the following lengths: 268.6 feet, 956.3 feet, 263.3 feet, 249.5 feet, 995 feet, and 288.4 feet. He then denies that plaintiff is, or ever was, the owner, in the possession or entitled to the possession of any portion of the said Northern Light Mine; and avers that he is, and at all the times mentioned in the complaint was, the owner of, in the possession of,…