Jones v. Clark
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, Placer County. There was a judgment in this case in February, 1869, dismissing the action as to the defendants Robert 0. Cravens, Mary J. Cravens, J. Willis Low, and Ezra S. Bradlee, dissolving the partnership known as the “ Dardanelles Mining Company,” existing between the plaintiff, defendant Clark, and the estate of William R. Longley, deceased, and ordering a reference to take an account as to the…
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, Placer County. There was a judgment in this case in February, 1869, dismissing the action as to the defendants Robert 0. Cravens, Mary J. Cravens, J. Willis Low, and Ezra S. Bradlee, dissolving the partnership known as the “ Dardanelles Mining Company,” existing between the plaintiff, defendant Clark, and the estate of William R. Longley, deceased, and ordering a reference to take an account as to the partnership affairs as between the said partners, and as to their transactions with the defendants Robert Winspear and John M.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Temple, J.:
On the 1st day of August, 1861, the Dardanelles Mining Company, a mining partnership, was in possession of, and was working, certain mining claims of the class known as hydraulic diggings, at Forrest Hill, Placer County.
At that time the company consisted of seven partners, one of whom, Longley, who owned nearly one half of the mine, to wit, six and one half fifteenths, was manager. On that day Longley, professing to act as the agent of the company, and for the piurpose of supplying the company with water to work their claims, purchased certain ditches for the sum of…
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