that hereafter in such case I would
state whether the person claiming such
discovery was lying or not - I will,
too, in plain English, for I hope by that
means to stop much of the perjury
that is prevalent in such cases.
It is too strong a temptation for
most miners, when by just a little
safe and gentlemanly perjury by
saying that when they staked they
also - when alone - panned along
the muck bank and found colors
of gold - and thus win a case where
thousands of dollars - and even greater
sums are involved. If I should
weakly yield to what is claimed to be
the decision in Lange v Robinson, it
would substitute perjury for
discovery. Tried case of McDougall
v Newlands & Olsen today - a case
