Miles v. Pike Mining Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bayfield county:.Johbt K. Rakish, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff’s decedent for many years had been one of several owners in a so-called mining option, being an option or privilege to prospect on certain land and to receive a lease of mining privileges upon certain conditions.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bayfield county:.Johbt K. Rakish, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff’s decedent for many years had been one of several owners in a so-called mining option, being an option or privilege to prospect on certain land and to receive a lease of mining privileges upon certain conditions. That option had been held under various names, but 'for some years prior to the death of said decedent was held by one Pike, said decedent’s interest therein being about one sixteenth, or, as it was expressed, 2,550 shares out of a total of 40,000. The associates bad acted as if…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The cause of action presented by the complaint is extremely uncertain. We find it difficult to discover any action of tort except one for deceit, namely, for inducing plaintiff to pay over certain moneys by fraudulent misrepresentation that the estate was the owner of 2,550 shares of the capital stock, of the defendant corporation and was indebted to the corporation for assessments thereon. No proof of such representation is found or suggested except certain notices sent to the plaintiff. Of these the first is typical, and asserted, in substance, that on June 24, 1902, at a meeting of the…
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