Capps & McCreary v. Hastings Prospecting Co.
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Adams county. Tried below before Gaslin, J. cited: Bishop, Contracts, secs. 321, 886; In re Empress Engineering Co., 16 Ch. Dlv. [Eng.], 125; Glass v. Glass, 71 Ind., 392; Grangers Life & Health Ins.
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Error from the district court of Adams county. Tried below before Gaslin, J. cited: Bishop, Contracts, secs. 321, 886; In re Empress Engineering Co., 16 Ch. Dlv. [Eng.], 125; Glass v. Glass, 71 Ind., 392; Grangers Life & Health Ins. Co. v. Hamper, 73 Ala., 325 ; Scovill v. Thayer, 105 U. S., 143; Abbott v. Omaha Smelting Co., 4 Neb., 419; Mokelumne Hill Canal •& Mining Co. v. Woodbury, 14 Cal., 427; Livesey v. Omaha Hotel Co., 5 Neb., 50; Estabrook v. Omaha Hotel Co., 5 Neb., 76 ; Ticonic Water Power & Mfg. Co. v. Lang, o Am. Corp. Cases [Me.], 414; Belfast & M. L. R. Co.v. Cottrell, 66 Me.,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
The Hastings Prospecting Company sued Lucius J. Capps and "Willis P. McCreary, copartners doing business under the name, firm, and style of Capps & McCreary, in the district court of Adams county on a subscription or writing obligatory signed by them, in words and figures as follows: “For the purpose of organizing a corporation, with a capital stock of $15,000 to bore for gas, oil, or coal, at or near the city of Hastings, Adams county, Nebraska, and to buy or lease the land to experiment thereon for such purposes, and to buy, lease, or hire the necessary machinery and labor for such…
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