HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order granting a temporary injunction. The suit was by the Christmas Gold Mining Company to quiet its title as against the Golden Cycle Mining Company to a vein of ore extending on its dip into the mining claims of defendant, to recover, the value of extracted mineral and damages, and to enjoin defendant from further operations. The defendant’s objection to the equitable jurisdiction of the trial court was denied. It renews the objection here.
[1, 2] The right of complainant to maintain the suit to quiet title depends upon its possession of the vein of ore in controversy. If it is not in possession, its remedy is in ejectment at law. Under the bill of complaint, injunction was incidental to the main relief, not independent, and should not have been granted if there was no jurisdiction in equity to quiet title. And so of the claim for value of ore and damages which, by itself, is cognizable at law. In ejectment and damages defendant has a right to trial by jury of which it cannot be deprived, by hitching them to a suit in equity not maintainable as such. The general rule in the courts of the United States is that to maintain .a suit to quiet title complainant must have possession of the property. The remedy is given by statute in some states if neither party is in possession; the land being vacant. Where this is so the enlarged equitable remedy is available in the courts of the United States. In Colorado, where this case arose, the old rule prevails and possession in complainant is essential. Mills’ Code, § 255. Owing to the peculiar characteristics of mining claims, what might be said to be a qualification of the rule is recognized. It was aptly expressed for this court by Circuit Judge now Mr. Justice Van Devanter in United States Mining Co. v. Lawson, 67 C. C. A. 587, 134 Fed. 769, as follows :
“Where the true owner of a mining claim is,in possession of its surface, claiming title to the entire claim, his possession in legal contemplation extends to everything which is part of the claim, whether vertically beneath its surface or within the extralateral right granted by Congress, which is not in the actual possession of another holding adversely.”
[3] Since the part of the ore vein in controversy here is not within the lines of complainant’s claim extended downward vertically, but is under the surface of defendant’s, the former was forced to rely upon the doctrine of the Lawson Case. The question therefore arose, “Was the property in dispute in the actual possession of defendant holding adversely?” If it was, complainant could not maintain a suit to quiet title. The following may fairly be gathered from the proofs. The mining claims of complainant and defendant adjoin. Those of defendant are senior in location and patent. A part of the apex of the vein is within the surface lines of defendant’s claims and the part of the vein which is in controversy is wholly within those lines extended downward vertically. For many years defendant asserted that the part of the vein in controversy pertained to its part of- the apex and [941]*941for many years it mined it openly and notoriously under claim of ownership and right, not secretly or clandestinely. Its workings on the vein extended to the vertical boundary between its claim and complainant’s and to a depth of about 1,400 feet from which it had largely extracted the ore. On its side and within its own vertical bounds complainant also mined. At times as might naturally occur in such work it crossed the line into the ground now in dispute, but when advised of the fact it withdrew. In effect, therefore, this suit is to quiet title 1o the mineral which still remains and for the value of that removed by defendant. If it is possible to conceive of a case of ex-tralateral claims in wdiich a vein of ore is in the possession of a defendant holding adversely within the doctrine of the Lawson Case, we think this is one. Defendant’s seniority in location and patent and other details are referred to, not for the purpose of deciding the merits, but for their relation to a real adverse holding under a substantial claim of right rather than a pretense to defeat jurisdiction. The possession by the owner of the surface of a mining claim of extralat-eral rights is constructive, and it must give way to actual adverse conditions disclosed by clear proofs. A mere averment of possession in a bill of complaint is not sufficient for continued jurisdiction- ill equity when seasonably and successfully challenged. We do not think the injunction that was granted should be retained in aid of a future action at law, as is suggested.
The order of injunction is vacated.
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