Marlin v. Drury

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an action by the plaintiff Lewis J. Marlin to recover money which he paid to the defendant R. P. Drury for an interest in a lease on certain placer mining property. The action is based solely on three alleged fraudulent representations charged to have been made in negotiating the deal.

The action was instituted November 18, 1949. The complaint charges that four months previous, to-wit, on or about July 18, 1949, the defendant Drury and one Peter M. Mosier exhibited to plaintiff certain gold nuggets and dust and fraudulently and falsely represented to plaintiff:…