Buck v. Cleveland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Milo L. Cleveland and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence on the 23d day of December, 1908, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the St. Lawrence Trial Term before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
On the 28th day of May, 1884, one Hendrick was the owner of twenty acres of land in which were supposed to be deposits of talc, soapstone, iron pyrites and other valuable minerals, and on that day he entered into what was termed an “agreement” in writing with one Spaulding, whereby, in consideration of one dollar and the performance of the covenants expressed, he contracted and sold to Spaulding “ the exclusive right and privilege to prospect for, mine, dig and quarry for any and all kinds of minerals” (enumerating some of them), with the right to take away the same, together…
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