Geraghty v. Randall

This action was brought by the appellee against the appellant. The complaint alleged that on the 30th day of January, 1897, the defendant sold to the plaintiff fifty thousand shares of the capital stock of the Cape May Mining and Leasing Company for six hundred dollars; that while negotiating the sale to the plaintiff, the defendant represented to him that the company was the owner of valuable mining property in the Cripple Creek mining district, in Colorado; that the company had applied for a United States, patent to the property; that he, the defendant, was familiar with the claim of the…