Goldsmith v. Newhouse

On the 8th day of February, 1897, F. S. Goldsmith and Fanny Goldsmith entered into a contract in writing with Samuel Newhouse, as trustee, by the terms of which, in consideration of the payment by Newhouse of the cost of sinking a shaft on certain mining property, the title to one-fourth of which was in the Goldsmiths, and of the remaining three-fourths in other parties, with whom the Goldsmiths claimed to have agreements authorizing such contract, they gave him the exclusive right to purchase the property on certain terms named in the contract. Afterwards, on the 15th day of March, 1897,…