Botsford v. Van Riper
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Esmeralda County; J. P. O’Brien, Judge, presiding. Action by L. C. Van Riper and another against Charles H. Botsford and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs and from an order refusing a new trial, defendant Botsford appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Esmeralda County; J. P. O’Brien, Judge, presiding. Action by L. C. Van Riper and another against Charles H. Botsford and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs and from an order refusing a new trial, defendant Botsford appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. First — There was no joint ownership, nor a community of property, between the plaintiffs and the defendant Botsford in either the option, or in the proceeds from the sale of the option. The respondents in their brief merely assert that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sweeney, J.:
This action is brought by the plaintiffs L. C. Van Riper and Joseph Hutchinson to recover from the defendant Charles H. Botsford two-thirds of the profits of a' deal whereby the Goldfield Mohawk Mining Company and *181other mining interests paid as a commission to the defendant, Botsford, 100,000 shares of the Goldfield Consolidated mining stock then valued at $1,000,000, in consideration of his turning over a certain option which he held on the Combination Mines Company, which made it possible to merge the properties now constituting the Goldfield Consolidated Mines…
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