Sears v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * in consideration of the information given by Collins (plaintiff) to Sears (defendant) concerning the place where the fragments of ore had been found, Sears agreed to go there and prospect and search for lodes, and that any and all such as he might find he would locate in the joint names of the two parties, each own ing an undivided half, and that Collins (plaintiff) was to pay one-half of the expenses of such location and work in prospecting and developing the finds.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smaller v. Leach