Daily camera., 1897-02-17
WANT THEIR COMMISSION.
Action Brought by Colvin and Teal for
Their Share In a Mine Transaction.

Their Share a Mine Transaction.
A complaint has baen filed in the d s.
trict court in an acton being brought by
George w. Teal and Clarence X. Covin
against Isaac L. Bond, for the purpose
of the recovery OF damages caused by an
alleged breach OF contract in the pay
ment of commission on a mining deal
The complaint filed is a voluminous
instrument the substance of which is as
follows:
The plaintiffs aliege that in JAM, 1894
they entered into partnership with the
defendant for the buying and selling of
mining property on commission; That
the defendant was owner OF certain min
ing properties known as the Ptussan or
Cragg group, which embraced the follow
lodes: Prussan lode and mill site, Little
Pittsburg lode, Excelsior mill site, Twin
lode and mill site, Eureka mill site,
Thorndike lode, Dick Cragg lode, Mucho
lode, Herbert Spencer lode, Mascot
lode, Little Archie lode, Paris lode and
mill site, Golden Gate lode, Prince Al
bert lode and mill site, Lombard lode,
Lansing lode and mill site, Mendoza lode
Horton lode, Bestle lode, New Discovery
lode, Prussian tunnel lode. Iowa lode,
Corner lode, Angle lode, Bordeaux lode,
ohm H. Gafney lode, Champagne lode,
Grand Connection lode, Broad Arrow
lode, Cragg tunnel lode, Wellington lode,
Star City lode, Gladstone lode, Golden
Treasure lode, Baltimore lode, Dolphin
lode, Little Annie lode, Kern lode, Bur
gundy lode, Cooper lode, Theodore
Child lode, Wesley Bowes lode, Henri
Cernuschi lode, Ellen Conn lode, Morn
ing Star lode, Townsend lode, Novem-
bega lode, Dingo lode, Parson Pomeroy
lode, Charles S. Brown lode. Dingo lode
No. 3, Tippecanoe lode, May s. lode,
Little Barlow ode, Harvest lode, Kalar-
ma lode, Birdie lode, Orvanna lode, Ro-
sana lode, Louis O'Bryan lode, Frederick
P. lode;
That an agreement existed between
the plaintiffs and defendant by which
the latter was 10 receive for certain
fourteen of the properties, which are
given below, $4,000, or, for all Of the
properties, $4,000, and that the plaintiffs,
in the event of sale being made by
them, were to receive all sums in excess
of the $4,000 for the fourteen properties,
or all sums in excess of the $4,000 for
the v hole, as commission;
That the plaintiffs did succeed in effect
ing a sale of the fourteen properties to
| Mr.. Newhouse for 10000, under terms
agreed upon between plaintiffs and de-
fendant, which was S. 900 down and notes
for the balance. The properties being:
Prussian lode and mill site, Little Pitts
burg lode, Excelsior lode, Twin lode,
Bestle lode, New Discovery lode, Angle
lode, John H. Gafney lode, Grand Con-
nection lode, Broad Arrow lode, Golden
Treasure lode, Little Annie lode, Cooper
| lode, Townsend lode;
| That plaintiffs spent considerable time
and effort and over 81, coo in efecting the
sale;
That under the terms of the agree.
ment the commission should be $4,000,
or transfer of all the remaining prop
critics;
That the defendant had not paid the
commission nor granted transfer Of the
remaining properties, but had instead
transferred part of the same to other
parties. and had allowed part to revert
to the U. S. government by failing to do
the necessary assessment work.
The complaint concludes by alleging
ing that the plaintiffs had sustained a
damage 10 the extent of $4,000 by the
alleged failure of the defendant to COM
! ply with the terms of the contract, and
prayed that judgment be given them in
the sum of $4,000 and costs of the suit.