Show A Suclrcr and a ITiiuiii Sharp CHICAGO June 3In 1880 Wm VVhalen from Nevada claiming to own six gold mines in that State interested AM Billing of this city in them who agreed to purchase pur-chase them for 30 = 3000 advancing such I sums of money as were needed from I time to time for their development The contract provided that when the mines had once been developed a stock company should be formed when to own onethird of the stock Billings advanced 13000 after which he sent an expert to Nevada who pronounced Whalen a fraud Billings began suit to recover the money advanced and Whalen began suit to recover the remaining portion of 300000 The circuit court decided de-cided in favor of Billings today and gave him iudgment for 13000 |