Schook v. Zimmerman
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Iron; Flannigan, J. Bill by Paul Schook against Eugene Zimmerman and others for specific performance. From a decree for complainant granting part relief both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
The nature and purpose of complainant’s somewhat lengthy bill, stated in brief outline, is to obtain specific performance of an oral contract, alleged to have been made with him by defendants Clutts and Zimmerman, under which, through his efforts, they secured an option for a 30-year iron-mining lease upon certain described land in Iron county, Mich.; that after certain explorations, by which it was ascertained the location contained extensive deposits of valuable iron ore, Zimmerman and Clutts transferred the mining lease which they had obtained under said option to the defendant Spring…
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