Perkins v. Peterson

In 1888, A. Bergh was an owner in certain mining claims in the Platte mining district, Park county, Colorado, called the “ Colorado No. 1 ” and “ Colorado No. 2.” A. H. Estes had some interest in these claims, but the exact extent of it is not apparent from the record. In November, Estes and Bergh made a contract with Perkins, Hart & Co., to transfer to them eleven twenty-fifths of these two properties, for which the grantees were to expend a sum not exceeding 14,000 for the development of the claims. On the 1 Ofcli, eleven twenty-fifths of the two properties were deeded to Perkins, Shreve…