Quackenbush v. Slate

Plaintiffs instituted this action to recover damages from defendants caused by the alleged conspiracy of defendants to fraudulently deprive plaintiffs of their interests in a mine.

The pertinent part of the complaint contains the following allegations. Defendants G. J. Vervaeke and Mary Vervaeke, his wife, February 5, 1938, gave to Neil E. Bayne an option to purchase their Deer Trail Mine for one hundred thousand dollars on deferred payment terms, and on the same day Bayne transferred the option to the Metals Development Company, Inc., which entered into immediate possession. Prior to October…