Pritchard v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““Where the balance of the purchase price of certain mining claims was payable, only out of the gross output of the claims, defendant could not escape performance by willfully neglecting to work the claims and produce the fund from which the payments were to be made, though there was no clause in the agreement binding him to do so. “Where a contract for the sale of mining claims provided that the purchaser should pay a balance of the price only by application of 25 per cent, of the gross output of the claims, it was his duty to use reasonable diligence to create the fund by working the mines, and his failure to do so for more than four years was sufficient to raise a rebuttable presumption of breach. “Where a contract for the sale of mining claims provided that a balance, of the price should be paid out of the proceeds of the mines, it would be presumed that the claims contained mineral; and the burden was on the defendants to rebut such presumption, and show that they were barren in defense, if such was the fact.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schlottman v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Co.