Starkweather v. Eddy

Plaintiff had judgment in an action brought to recover the sum of $1,250 and also to recover 50,000 shares of the capital stock of the Minarets Mining Company. From this judgment the defendant appeals.

The record shows that the Minarets Mining Company was, at the date of the trial, a corporation, and had been such since the fifteenth day of November, 1916; that the plaintiff was engaged in the prosecution of mining upon certain mining premises belonging to him; that during the year 1917 the plaintiff engaged in negotiations with the Minarets Mining Company for the transfer to said mining…