Boston & Colorado Smelting Co. v. Pless

Appellee sued to recover damages for breach of an alleged verbal contract with appellant, under which appellee'claimed that he was to have the privilege for three months to “sort and search for matte and other valuable silver and gold-bearing materials around the old and abandoned furnaces and slag dumps ” of appellant at Alma, for which he was to have ninety per cent, of the assay value thereof, less the freight to the Argo Smelting Works, and the customary price for treating such material at said smelting works. The breach assigned is that, after working under the contract about two months,…