Cadle v. Helfrich

The defendant, R. G. Cadle, was the owner of two mining claims in the Mineral Hill Mining District of Pinal county, Arizona, known as “January” and “New Year,” and some time during 1922 he and the plaintiff, E. E. Helfrich, entered into a written contract whereby the latter agreed to furnish the former a certain sum of money to do assessment and development work on them. In compliance therewith the plaintiff advanced the defendant $275 and received from him on September 2d, 1922, a deed conveying a one-third interest in them. The agreement was executed also by a third party, one B. P. Hardy,…