Steinbeck v. Bon Homme Mining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal frort> the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The Bon Homme Mining Company, a corporation of the state of Louisiana, owned certain mining claims in the state of Colorado in the year 1888, and appointed James F. Steinbeck, who was one of its stockholders, at a salary of about $100 per month, to develop and operate a mine upon them. It also appointed him its agent to accept service of process upon- it in the state of Colorado.
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Appeal frort> the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The Bon Homme Mining Company, a corporation of the state of Louisiana, owned certain mining claims in the state of Colorado in the year 1888, and appointed James F. Steinbeck, who was one of its stockholders, at a salary of about $100 per month, to develop and operate a mine upon them. It also appointed him its agent to accept service of process upon- it in the state of Colorado. Steinbeck operated the mine about 15 months, until October, 1889, when the company directed him to cease business because it had lost…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
This suit was instituted to avoid the tax title, the sheriff’s deeds, and the decree which quieted the title in Steinbeck, upon the ground that the latter had obtained these claims of ownership by deceit and fraud. These three sources of title may be considered in their order ; and the first question the case presents is whether Steinbeck was guilty of am- fraud or breach of duty in his procurement and assertion of the title in himself under the tax certificates and deeds. The material facts which condition this issue have been set forth. They not only fail to disclose any indication of…
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