Hanson

This was an action in ejectment tried in the court below with a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs in the action. The complaint alleged that while the plaintiffs, who are the defendants in error here, were the owners and in the actual possession of a placer mining claim situate on Wildcat creek, a tributary of Treasure creek, in the Fairbanks mining district of Alaska, called the “Red Dog Association claim,” the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants to the action, went upon a part of the ground and ousted the plaintiffs therefrom. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff Carroll and one Hugh Dougherty, as attorney in fact for the *87 plaintiff Alice Dougherty, located and staked the Red Dog Association claim for the plaintiffs on the 5th day of January, 1906, the ground so staked being 1,320 feet wide by a mile long, and the plaintiffs being eight in number; that on the 18th of the next month the plaintiffs changed the boundaries of .the claim so as to lessen the width one-half and to double the length, and marked the boundaries thereof so that they could be readily traced upon the ground, and thereafter recorded the notice of location;…