Pack
Pack v. Carter
Opinion
lead Opinion
Morrow, J.
It is alleged in the complaint filed by the plaintiff in this case that he is the own'er and holder of an undivided one-eighth interest in and to 175 certain placer mining claims, particularly set forth and described in the complaint. The claims described in the body of the complaint are the identical claims involved in case No. 2535, 223 Fed. 635 ,-C. C. A.-, just decided. The plaintiff alleges that he derived title thereto, by mesne conveyance, from one O. Perkins and Sylvia Perkins, his wife. The complaint is based upon an alleged notice of forfeiture, dated September 14, 1914, served upon the plaintiff’s predecessor in interest by the defendants, wherein the latter claim to have expended the sum of $4,400 for assessment work on certain described claims for the year 1912, and a demand is by the alleged notice made upon the plaintiff’s predecessor in interest for the payment by him to thefn of a contribution for such assessment work on the claims alleged to amount to the sum of $550. The plaintiff prayed for an injunction pendente lite restraining the defendants from forfeiting his interest in and to the claims in suit. The notice of forfeiture served upon the plaintiff by the…