Hughes v. Gibbs

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal in an action brought by the plaintiffs as third-party creditor beneficiaries of a contract between the defendants, E. B. Gibbs and Grace C. Gibbs, his wife, and the Chewelah Copper Company, a Washington corporation.

The plaintiffs, Winifred Hughes and Dora Dickey, own certain mining claims in Stevens county, Washington. On November 17, 1953, they entered into a lease agreement with the Chewelah Copper Company. The lease provided, among other things, that the lessee corporation

“ . . . shall cause to be performed a minimum of 312 eight-hour man…