Kanters v. Kotick

In the spring of 1913, one Williams, one Ray and others were desirous of procuring land *524suitable for a cranberry plantation near Little Rock, Thurston county. Williams was selected to procure such land in his own name, with a view to having it transferred to a corporation when organized. Respondent Kotick gratuitously assisted Williams, who was a stranger at Little Rock, with the enterprise. One Keller was the owner of an eighty-acre tract of land containing some fourteen to twenty acres of marsh land, and held a school land lease from the state of forty acres of marsh land continuing the…