State Ex Rel. Cole v. District Court

This is an original proceeding; application for writ of supervisory control.

It appears that Humphrey Courtney, Maurice Courtney and John H. Cole, the relator, all of Granite county, obtained a lease of a certain mining claim in that county and engaged in mining it. It is admitted that, thereupon, there was formed a partnership, which still exists. It is contended by the two first named that it is a mining partnership; by the latter, that it is a general partnership.

Florence Cole Petritz, a sister of relator, sued him, in the district court, in Silver Bow county, for money loaned, in the sum…