Bayles v. Baxter
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Seventeenth Judicial District. The Court below found the facts as follows: La a conversation about the tenth day of August, a.d. 1861, between the plaintiffs and defendant, both being at the time owners in the mining claims and property of the Highland Masonic Mining Co. at Wet Ravine, in Sierra County, defendant stated to plaintiffs that he had made arrangements to buy an interest in the company from one John Thomas, but would not do so unless the plaintiffs…
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Appeal from the Seventeenth Judicial District. The Court below found the facts as follows: La a conversation about the tenth day of August, a.d. 1861, between the plaintiffs and defendant, both being at the time owners in the mining claims and property of the Highland Masonic Mining Co. at Wet Ravine, in Sierra County, defendant stated to plaintiffs that he had made arrangements to buy an interest in the company from one John Thomas, but would not do so unless the plaintiffs would also purchase an interest, so that they might have a majority of interests in the company, in order that the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrocker, J.
This is an action to compel the defendant to convey to the plaintiffs the undivided one-thirty-second pail of the mining claims and property of the Highland and Masonic Mining Company. The findings of the Court show, that on the seventeenth day of August, 1861, the plaintiffs furnished the defendant SI,610 to purchase said interest and pay the incidental expenses of the purchase, with the agreement that he was to make the purchase and take the conveyance of the property in his own name and hold it until the October meeting of the company, which he was to attend and vote this interest as the…
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