Bateman

(after stating the facts as above), f 1 ] 1. The plaintiffs in this case number 113. They each claim a separate and distinct quarter section of land, of 160 acres each, within a larger tract containing 105,120.11 acres claimed by the defendant the Southern Oregon Company. The latter company is the successor in interest through mesne conveyances of the Coos Bay Wagon Road Company, the original grantee, under patents issued to that company by thé United States in the years 1875, 1876, and 1877, pursuant to certain acts of Congress providing for the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in Oregon. The purpose of this suit is to compel the defendant the Southern Oregon Company, as the successor in interest in the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant, to convey all its right, title, and interest in and to the separate tracts of laud claimed by the respective plaintiffs, as set forth and described in the bill of complaint. It is not claimed that any plaintiff has any interest in the land in suit other than the claim asserted to the specific tract. It is alleged in the bill of complaint that the value of each individual claim of 160 acres of land…