Barbour v. Hurlburt

The plaintiffs recovered a verdict and judgment for $1,033.32 upon a count for money had and received, the case having been commenced by attachment. The court directed the verdict, and defendant has appealed. The substance of plaintiffs’ claim is that they were solicited by the defendant to join with himself and others in the purchase of some mines, and in forming a corporation to develop and operate the same, to which corporation the mines were to be deeded, which, with $5,000 of the money raised, were to constitute its capital stock. He represented that one Dempster had an option upon these…