Winsor v. Commonwealth Coal Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Shackleford, J., entered August 8, 1910, in favor of certain defendants, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The plaintiff brought this action to annul a contract entered into by himself and Newton H. Peer, and to annul all contracts made by Bates, Peer & Peterson pursuant to the original contract, upon the ground that Bates, Peer & Peterson were attorneys for the plaintiff at the time the original contract was made, and that they overreached the plaintiff, and that after they and their associates had obtained possession of the property described in the contract, they mismanaged the same so that it was in imminent danger of being wholly lost. The defendants admitted the contract, but denied all the…
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