Ford v. Taylor

(orally). This suit was brought November 4, 1904, in the state court, to enforce the specific performance of an oral contract or agreement, alleged in the complaint to have been made and entered into between the complainant and defendant Taylor with reference to the acquirement of mining ground and mining claims in what is now known as the Goldfield mining district, “for the mutual interest and benefit of each,” and for an accounting; the agreement, in *357substance, being that Ford on his part should furnish Taylor with a horse or mule (and feed for the same) to drive in a cart, and that Taylor…