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89 FEDERAL REPORTER.
for allowance before plaintiff could maintain this action. The tax being an illegal· one under the facts set forth in the answer, and paid under protest, the plaintiff was entitled to have the same reo funded to him. The complainant, under the statute cited above, stated a cause of action, and it was not necessary that it should be shown that there was any demand upon the county commissioners for a repayment of the same. The plaintiff's motion for a judgment is sustained, and it is ordered that plaintiff have and recover of de· fendant the sum of $7,374.35, and legal interest thereon from the - - "- day of - - - , and its costs of suit.
BARRY et al. v. LAW.1 (CIrcuit Court, District of Columbia.
1802.)
1.
EVIDENCE-ADj\IJSSIBIUTY OF UNSTAMPED WRITINGS.
An account rendered with an order by the debtor on a third person to pay It Is not admissible, when not written on stamped paper.
2. 8.
STATUTE OF FRAUDS-PROMISE TO PAY DEBT OF ANOTHER.
A conditional promise to pay the debt of another Is within the statute of frauds.
STATUTE OF FRAUDS-NOTE IN WRITING-SUFFICIENCY.
An unsigned entry in the promisor's books of account of a memorandum of a bill rendered to a third person by the promisee Is not a sufficient note in writing, under the statute of frauds, to support a promise to pay it.
4.
MONEY HAD AND HECEIVED-WHEN LIES.
Evidence that a debtor drew an order on another for the payment of an account, and that the drawee made a memorandum of it in his books, and promised to pay the creditor the account, if he (the drawee) owed the debtor so much, does not support a count for money had and received by the creditor a.gainst the drawee.
Assumpsit. First count, money had and received; second, a special promise to pay for planks and tImber sold by the plaintiffs to Bryan, in consideration that the plaintiffs would forbear to sue him; third, indebitatus assumpsit for planks, etc., sold to the defendant himself. The case in evidence was that Bryan had contracted with Mr. Law t.o build stables and furnish materials; that Bryan purchased of the plaintiffs planks, etc., to the amount of $135.97. Bryan, at the foot of the plaintiffs' account rendered, drew an order on Mr. Law, in these words: "Sir: Please to pay to R. & G. Barry the above account, being lumber B. Bryan. used in building your stables, and charge your humble serv't. "To Tho. Law."
This order was not on stamped paper. The defendant on the 6th of December, 1800, made an entry in his books, as follows: "Stables on Sq. 693, Dr. To am't of Capt. Barry's bill, $135.97,"-and promised the plaintiffs that, if so much was due by him to Bryan, the bilI should be paid. 1 This case has been heretofore reported In 1 Cranch, C. C. 77, and Is now published in this series, so as to include therein all circuit and district court cases elsewhere reported whIch have been inadVErtently omitted from the Federal Cases.
TERRIBLE MIN. CO. V. ARGENTINE MI:'\'. CO.
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THE COURT refused the order to go in evidence to the jury, because it was not stamped. .They also instructed the jury that the plaintiffs could not recover on the defendant's promise, unless he bad signed a note in writing promising to pay, etc., that its being a conditional promise did not take it out of the statute of frauds, and that the entry in the defendant's books was not a sufficient note in writing to charge the defendant.' . They refused to instruct the jury that, if at the time of the promise the defendant was indebted to Bryan in a sum equal to the plaintiffs' claim, the evidence was applicable to the count for money had and received. KILTY, C. J., absent. TERRIBLE MIN. CO. v. ARGENTINE MIN. CO.t!
(Circuit Court, D. Colorado. 1. MINES-LoCATION-DrscOVERY SHAFT.
November, 1883.)
A valid location of a mining claJm must show in the discovery shaft a vein or lode of valuable ore in rock in place.
2. SAME.
a.
Ifa miner, after sinking a shaft, fails to find a lode, and then sinks another shaft, in which he does find one, he may make the latter his discovery shaft, on which location may be based. A location Is not valid beyond the limits of the lode on which the discovery is based.
SAME.
Action by the Terrible Mining Company against the Argentine, Mining Company.
HALLETT, District Judge (orally). That the plaintiff bringing his action to recover possession of a mining claim, must show a good location in compliance with the statute in respect to locations; i. e.: he must show in his discovery shaft a vein or lode of valuable ore, in rock in place, as well as compliance with the statute in other reo gards. The miner is not bound to make the first shaft or opening which he may sink, his disoovery shaft. If, after sinking in one place, and failing to find a lode, he sinks in another, and finds one, he may make the second his discovery shaft, on which location may be based. That it is competent for him to make any shaft he may sink his discovery shaft, but it must disclose a lode or vein in rock in place, not simply mineral in a fragmentary condition. A location is held valid only to the extent of the lode which is included within it. If a location is extended beyond the limits of the lode, in so far as it goes beyond the lode it is held invalid, for the reason that the location gives no right to the surface, except in connection with the lode. 1 This case has been heretofore reported in 5 :McCrary, 639, and is now published in this series, so as to include therein all circuit and district court cases elsewhere reported which have been inadvertently omitted from the F'ederal Reporter.