The herald., 1897-10-07
COMPLICATED STOCK
Suit to Settle Rand Mountain Mining
Shares

A complaint in Intervention was filed
yesterday in the circuit court by Fred
eric NJ. Mooers, in the case of the Rand
Mountain Mining company against the
Sunlight Gold Mining company, Rose L.
Burcham, C. A. Burcham, John Single
ton, Patrick Reddy, J. c. Campbell and
w. H. Metson.
| The document is voluminous, and a
Chinese maze Is plain sailing in COM
parison to the complicated exchange and
interchange alleged to have been made
of certain shares of mining stock. II
appears that in 1894, Reddy. Campbell
and Metson were given a one-quarter in
terest in the Rand mountain mining
property as recompense for legal serv-
ices rendered concerning the title.
Mooers, one Of the original discoverers
of the Rand mines, and owning a one
twelfth portion Of the whole, now sues
for recorNeyance of his portion for nom
compliance Of the contract; and for
$4,000 damages for alleged injury that
such compliance has done to his in
terest. Mooers offers to pay Reddy,
Campbell and Metson whatever the
court says is just in compensate ton for
their services, if they reconvey to him
his one-twelfth portion. Mooers fur
ther claims they have involved him in
tedious litigaion, which has clouded his
title, by getting up dummy corpora
ton.
Now come the complications. Thu
complaint AYERS that for is years. up to
1895, Mooers and his wife had been liv-
ing apart, but that when he discovered
sold mine he wrote, telling her of it, and
asking her to return to him. This, ac-
cording to the complaint, the lady OBJ
ligingly did, after having taken the pre-
caution in New York before she started,
so it is alleged, of having deed prepared
conveying to her all her husbands in
terest or one-fourth of the Rand Noun
tain mining property. Six monthslater,
the complaint claims, Mooers signed this
deed when his faculties were somewhat
blurred by intoxicating liquors. and
later, when he was himself again. he re-
fused to recognize the deed But it is
claimed that Mrs. Mooers produced wit
nesses who swore to the signature. and
moreover that it was on record in Kern
county.
Shortly afterward, the complaint al
leges, she gave half of the property back
to her husband, after which she gave
Patrick Reddy an option on the whole
for $4,000; this. was in December 1896.
and Reddy was to pay half in February
and half in March, 1897. But, 1t is al
legged, no payment was made, so in |
April Mrs. Mooers decided two-fifths OF
the whole one-fourth interest to her hus
band, and one-fifth OF the one-fourth to |
her son, and they both conveyed to her |
a one-tenth interest in mines outside of |
the Rand group.
Late in May, when the Rand Mining |
company was formed in Nevada, and |
the Sunlight Mining company in Colo
rado, the pext move was made by Red
dy, who, it is claimed, assigned to the |
Rand Mt Mining company the option |
he had received in December, 1896, and |
hadn't paid for as far as can be seer by
the complaint; and one day later Mrs.
Mooers, according to the complaint,
decided the full one-fourtl interest to
the Rand Mt. Mining company; at
the same time Reddy assigned, accord
ing to the same authority, to the Sun
light company the option on one-half
interest in the mines that he had re-
ceived from Singleton and the two
Burchams; and at the same time as
signed to the same company Mr.
Mooer's interest in the Rand company.
Therefore action is brought by Mooers
to settle the title to the two-fifths in
terest that his wife decided to him in
April.