Minch v. Winters

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for an accounting, for relief on the ground of fraud, for an adjudication of certain rights and liabilities of the litigants, and to wind up the affairs of a joint adventure in which they were engaged.

Plaintiffs were eighteen citizens of New Jersey, two of Mississippi, arid one each of Indiana, New York, and Tennessee; and all of them Avere alleged to have been the dupes of the two principal defendants, Harry Winters and John Connors, both of Iola, in a speculative venture in Bourbon county oil leases. Roscoe C. Davis, of…