Oakason v. Lisbon Valley Uranium Co.

CHRISTENSON, District Judge.

In April, 1955 the plaintiffs, doing business as Western States Map Company, entered into an oral contract with the predecessor in interest of defendant (the obligations of which defendant has assumed) for the surveying of 1,200 uranium mining claims. They theretofore had done land surveying for others and to an extent held themselves out to the public as being engaged in the practice of land surveying. They had not filed an affidavit of doing business under an assumed name since the business had become a joint one, but one of the plaintiffs, when he was sole…