Trayes v. Johns

This was a suit in equity based upon an alleged agreement for partnership in a lease of mining property. The agreement on which the action is founded is thus set forth in the plaintiff’s complaint:

*220“ That on or about the first day of February, A. D. 1895, the plaintiff and defendants John F. Trayes and Thomas Trayes entered into an agreement whereby they were to obtain leases upon some of the blocks to be leased by The Durant Mining Company and The Compromise Mining Company, on Aspen Mountain, in The Roaring Fork Mining District, and by the terms of said agreement the said defendants, John F.…