Kloppenburg v. Mays

AILSHIE, C. J. —

This is an appeal from a judgment of rescission of a contract of sale and purchase of a mining claim.

Respondent, a bachelor, native of Boise county, had resided in Boise basin for more than seventy years. He had engaged in all kinds of mining and was the owner of the Golconda, a quartz mining claim located in the Moore’s Creek Mining District, and also owned a half interest in two other mining claims, the Golconda No. 2 and the Nevada. Respondent knew appellant Howes all his life and had known Greene for eight or ten years. Howes was the owner of some placer claims below the…