In Re Liability of General Electric Co.

It appears prior to the making of the contract in question here Thomas H. Mellen and Eusebio Aguirre had been engaged, at least to some extent, in the business of contracting “cross-cutting, drifting” and also that “Aguirre and another man” had had a contract for driving a tunnel at the Yuba mine. It further appears shortly prior to May 25, 1942, a Mr. Richards of the Du Pont Company, told Mellen, in effect, the General Electric Company contemplated the development of a mine it owned near Patterson, in Lemhi County, and to that end letting a contract for driving about 1,000 feet of tunnel.…