Pennsylvania State Reports Volume 251 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...after the written contract was executed. That the inducement which led the defendant to execute the written contract was the agreement of the plaintiffs to appear before the land commissioners of Idaho and withdraw their application for segregation, and it was upon the faith of this agreement that the defendant executed said contract. That in pursuance of their agreement so to do, three of the legal plaintiffs, acting for themselves and their associates, appeared before the land commissioners of Idaho, at a meeting held in Boise, Idaho, on August 10, 1908, and then and there publicly withdrew their application for segregation. That the object and purpose of the plaintiffs in withdrawing their application for segregation was to induce 1916. Statement of Facts. and bring about the granting of the Twin Falls Company's like application, and thereby fix the liability of the defendant to pay to the plaintiffs the sum of $300,000 as provided by the terms of the written contract in suit; but the representative of the plaintiffs who addressed the meeting of the land commissioners at the time of the withdrawal of the application merely stated that an arrangement had been made with Mr. Buhl (the defendant) by the Kuhn interests (which meant the legal plaintiffs), by which plaintiffs' maps, filings, rights or priorities were to be transferred to Mr. Buhl, and in explanation of why plaintiffs were withdrawing their application for segregation he assigned but one reason, and that was that the Kuhn interests were already engaged in a great many large enterprises there, and had about as much as they could handle for the next two or three years. That immediately upon, and as a direct result of, the withdrawal of the plaintiffs, the Board of Land Commissioners...