Johnson v. Spohr

The appellee recovered judgment against the appellant for $1,000, of which, as the appellee alleged, the appellant had defrauded him. The case is here by appeal from that judgment.

The complaint stated that the plaintiff, the defendant and two others, were the owners of a mining claim, the interest of each being an undivided one fourth; that the defendant by representing that he could sell the whole claim for $46,000, or $11,500 for each quarter interest, induced the plaintiff to execute and place in escrow a deed for his interest to W. S. Stratton, at the agreed price of $11,500. The…