Johnson v. Leonhard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

LaNGEOrd, J.

This is a case wherein the plaintiff in error, Thomas Johnson, brought an action in the district court against Fred Leonhard for $4,000 for the breach of a certain contract to convey the title to certain coal land. The answer set up that said contract was one link in the chain whereby a conspiracy was effected that one Imbrie should in his own name enter certain coal lands, and obtain title thereto as the agent, and for the use and benefit, of a corporation named the “ Northern Pacific Coal Company,” the said company at the time having…