Author : Montana Supreme Court
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230019475
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...case it was eventually incorporated. The plaintiff testified that he went to South Bend and attempted to sell stock; that he interested certain prospective purchasers in the matter, and he says: "They raised but one question, and that was the title. They were satisfied with everything with reference to the company, except the title of the property. " " " They were satisfied to take stock, provided the title to the property was correct. They decided on Dr. S. L. Kilmer to come to Butte to examine the title. " " "' I stayed there about two months, and I first had intimation that the company was not incorporated, or that the title was not good about one month after I went back there, and, when I had information that this title was bad. they wanted to know what was the matter that I did not send their man back here. I was paying his expenses to come back here to investigate; and I left because I could not do any business, because they would not talk to me, because they thought I did not have anything, I guess. They thought I was a fake, I guess, toward the last, and I arrived here about the 8th or 9th of August, 1906." The plaintiff introduced in evidence a contract dated June 9, 1906, authorizing him to sell 50,000 shares of the capital stock of the Butte-Meaderville Copper Mining Company under the following conditions, to-wit: 5,000 shares to be sold on or before July 4, 1906, and the balance on or before August 9, 1906, each of said shares to net the company $2.50. It appears that on July 11, 1906, another contract was sent him, wherein he was authorized to sell not to exceed 100,000 shares of the capital stock at the price of $1 per share. When he returned to Butte, he gave as a reason for...