Jones v. Perot
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. For the first cause of action defendants in error as plaintiffs below allege, that on. January 28, 1882, plaintiff and others were the owners of certain Roaring Fork Improvement Company bonds, and that said parties entered into a written agreement wfith Isaac Cooper with reference thereto, setting forth the instrument in liceo verla.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. For the first cause of action defendants in error as plaintiffs below allege, that on. January 28, 1882, plaintiff and others were the owners of certain Roaring Fork Improvement Company bonds, and that said parties entered into a written agreement wfith Isaac Cooper with reference thereto, setting forth the instrument in liceo verla. So far as the provisions of the agreement are necessary to a correct understanding of the present controversy they are as follows :— Cooper agrees to forthwith organize and cause to be incorporated a company to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice Hayt,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is contended that the first cause of action upon which plaintiff relies is fatally defective by reason of the failure to plead the payment of $22,500, which, under the contract, the plaintiffs were to pay to the defendant Isaac Cooper. One of the conditions of the contract sued on required the parties of the second part upon the consummation of said exchange to surrender to said Cooper all the stock of said Roaring Fork Improvement Company received as bonus for the bonds so exchanged, and to release and fay over to him, said cash de*146posit…
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