Pack

In the present suit the plaintiff prayed for and obtained an injunction pendente lite restraining and enjoining the defendants from in any manner taking any steps towards forfeiting the plaintiffs right, title, and interest in and to 12 certain placer mining claims, particularly set forth and described in the complaint as claims Nos. 68 to 72, inclusive, 87 to 91, inclusive, 111,, and 112, situate upon Searles Borax Lake, San Bernardino county, Cal.

All of such claims are included in the 175 claims involved in case No. 2535, 223 Fed. 635 ,--C. C. A. -. The complaint is based *642 upon an alleged notice of forfeiture, dated September 14, 1914, and served by the defendants upon the plaintiff, wherein they claim to have expended the sum of $1,200 for assessment work upon the claims for the year 1911, and they demand the payment by him to them of a contribution to such assessment work on the claims alleged to amount to the sum of $150, It sufficiently appears that the $1,200 here claimed as an expenditure by 'Pack on the 12 claims for the year 1911 is part of the $5,600 claimed by Pack as having been expended by him on the 175 claims described in the notice attached to the complaint…