Blonder v. Gentile

This is an action to recover the sum of $10,000 due to plaintiff from defendant under the provisions of an agreement in writing, executed by the parties and one J. J. Satin on November 29, 1954. The action was tried by the court without a jury and defendant appeals from the judgment entered for the plaintiff.

The agreement was to form a mining partnership to develop some 63 claims in the Jawbone Mining District in Kern County, and provided, in part, as follows:

“3. Phillip J. Gentile hereby agrees to pay to B. Blonder, upon execution of this agreement, the sum of $10,000, payable by sixty-day…