Brown v. Gordon-Tiger Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Denver District Court. Hon. Peter L. Palmer Judge. This controversy grows ont of a sale of a tract of land consisting of about one hundred and sixty-seven acres, situated in Lake county, in the state of Colorado, with a gold mine, -known as the Gordon- - Tiger mine, and a • ranch and a mill site located thereon.
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Error to Denver District Court. Hon. Peter L. Palmer Judge. This controversy grows ont of a sale of a tract of land consisting of about one hundred and sixty-seven acres, situated in Lake county, in the state of Colorado, with a gold mine, -known as the Gordon- - Tiger mine, and a • ranch and a mill site located thereon. On the first day of April, 1900, this property was owned as follows: - Constance • H. Brown, the plaintiff below, owned an undivided three-fourths, and the other one-fourth belonged to the heirs of Belinda II. Brown, deceased, first wife -of S. P. Brown, the present plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
It is manifest from the express provisions of the contract that the furnishing of the mill and machinery specified and the diligent operation of the mine were the principal inducements to Brown to sell the property, upon the condition that the balance of the purchase price should be paid only out of the profits derived from the ore mined and sold. To emphasize the importance of taking immediate control of the property by the company and the construction and continuous operation, of the reduction *320plant, it was -further provided that six months was sufficient time to procure and put the plant…
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- Grimes v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
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- Richardson v. LoweCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
- Taylor v. ShortSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
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- Gordon Tiger Mining & Reduction Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Colorado · 1914
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