Royal Consol. Mining Co. v. Royal Consol. Mines (Cal.) Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEALS from judgments of the Superior Court of Calaveras County and from orders denying new trials. A. I. MeSorley, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Bishop, Hoefler, Cook & Harwood, and A. J. Harwood, for Leon Ephriam Morris, William Bryson Butler, and John Thomas Hodson, Defendants and Cross-Complainants, Appellants and Respondents.
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APPEALS from judgments of the Superior Court of Calaveras County and from orders denying new trials. A. I. MeSorley, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Bishop, Hoefler, Cook & Harwood, and A. J. Harwood, for Leon Ephriam Morris, William Bryson Butler, and John Thomas Hodson, Defendants and Cross-Complainants, Appellants and Respondents. Solinsky & Wehe, for Royal Consolidated Mines (California) Limited, a Corporation, and J. C. Kemp Van Ee, Appellants and Respondents. Nieol & Orr, Campbell, Metson & Campbell, and S. D. Woods, for Royal Consolidated Mining Company,…
1Opinion of the CourtSloss, J.
On the ninth day of February, 1898, Royal Consolidated Mining Company, a corporation (designated in this opinion as the “vendor” or the “California corporation”), entered into a written contract with J. C. Kemp Van Ee for the sale by it to him of certain mining properties in Calaveras County. The terms of the contract, which will be set out at greater length hereafter, provided for the incorporation by the purchaser of a company under the Joint Stock Companies Acts of Great Britain, for the purpose of acquiring the properties. Such company, the Royal Consolidated Mines (California) Company…
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