Navone v. Young

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting respondent Hood’s title to, and establishing the fraud of appellant in the matter of a contract entered into between the parties to work, a parcel of mining land.

The facts of the case are as follows: F. H. Hood had for many years been the owner of a mining property, in connection with which he had been endeavoring to discover a method by which the minerals contained in the complex ore found thereon could be reduced and recovered. Plaintiff, a mechanic and mine operator, represented to Hood that he had discovered a method of reducing the ore; that he…