Wiser v. Lawler
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. This was a complaint in the nature of a bill in equity filed in the District Court of Yavapai County, Arizona, by appellants, for themselves and all others interested, against John Lawler and Edward W. Wells, principal defendants, and the Seven Stars Gold Mining Company, The Industrial Mining and Guaranty Company and John Griffin, receiver of such companies, to adjudge Lawler and Wells to be estopped from disputing…
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. This was a complaint in the nature of a bill in equity filed in the District Court of Yavapai County, Arizona, by appellants, for themselves and all others interested, against John Lawler and Edward W. Wells, principal defendants, and the Seven Stars Gold Mining Company, The Industrial Mining and Guaranty Company and John Griffin, receiver of such companies, to adjudge Lawler and Wells to be estopped from disputing the title of the Seven Stars Company to certain mining properties, and to decree such properties to belong to that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The principal defendants to this suit are Lawler and Wells, (hereinafter termed “ the defendants ”) and the ease turns upon their complicity in and responsibility for the contents of the prospectuses, which are full of exaggerated and delusive statements, and were undoubtedly a gross fraud upon persons who .took stock upon the faith of their exuberant promises. Indeed, they were of such a character as to create surprise that intelligent investors should have believed their statements to be true. The representation upon which the greatest reliance is. placed is that contained in the American…
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