Triggs v. Jones
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant Jones (impleaded with Wm. O. Cook and wife and Milton George) from an order of the district court for St. Louis county, refusing a new trial after a trial by Ensign, J., and judgment for $15,000, with interest from August 8, 1887, ordered against appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendant Cook, having a patent for an improved frog or “car-replacer,” had contracted to sell to defendant Jones a half-interest in it for $75,000, with an understanding that Jones, who seems to have been engaged as a “promoter” of such enterprises, would procure others to purchase portions of his half-interest, and then, when paid for, stock the whole thing by forming a corporation to which the patent should be conveyed, each party taking stock in proportion to his interest, Cook taking half of the stock for his remaining half of the patent. At Chicago, about the 30th of July, 1887,…
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