Gordon v. Darnell

The plaintiffs below, appellants here, were original locators of the Good'Neighbor mining claim, at Silver Cliff. On the 23d day of August, 1879, they executed and delivered to one John W. Lawrence, a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned to convey tbe claim to him on payment to them, or upon the deposit by Lawrence in the Custer County Bank, in Silver Cliff, on or before the 23d day of October, 1879, the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars. The bond was not signed by Lawrence contains np clause granting him the possession during the option, and no consideration is…