| Show A SUIT FOR DAMAGES C x MiV I DuBois Claims That Mr Egan Made Wrong Representations The complaint In a damage suit for S10I50 has been prepared by Patterson t RToycr attorneys for John E DuBois Du-Bois of Boston the plaintiff and in which Timothy Egan Is defendant The grounds for the suit allege representations representa-tions made to Mr DuBois by Mr Egan since the 13th of September 1900 I and while Mr Egan was president and manager of the Yankee Consolidated I Mining company and on which representations repre-sentations Mr DuBois purchased 24500 shares for 5590312 I is alleged that the defendant while acting as manager of the company caused a long tunnel to be driven through its grounds and into I lands owned by the May Day mine I where a large body of silver and lead ore was encountered That Mr Egan afterward on September loth hall a s competent surveyor niakoa survey of the underground workings of the Yankee Yan-kee Consolidated mine at his company expensf and that tho survey disclosed the fact that the ore body which had been encountered and from which Shl mcnls were being made was upon the May Day grounds That Mr Egan caused a map to be made showing the boundary line between the two proper lies and locating the ore body within I the May Day ground and that Mr Egan then took said map to his private I residence and concealed the samo and J did not disclose the facts until after the salE of the Yankee shares had been made to the plaintiff It is further alleged that in October 3300 the plaintiff with Mr Egan and P A J Franklin visited the mine and explored the underground workings I That the defendant Mr Egan then I j and there willfully and maliciously and for the purpose of Injuring and defrauding de-frauding the plaintiff Induced the plaintiff to purchase stock of the Yankee Yan-kee Consolidated at a price much higher than its actual value that Mr Ean represented the ore bodies to br entirely within the Yankee Ctonsolf daleds grounds and that the boundary line was about thirty feet farther in than the t ore body extended The complaint com-plaint also states that Mr Egan repre jsentcd j to the plaintiff that he the said Egan was desirous of buying said I stock and that he was buying it on the market all of which statements it is alleged the defendant well knew to be false I is staled that as a matter of fact the defendant Egan was at the time these representations were made disposing dis-posing 0 his holdings of the capital stock of the Yankee Consolidated company I com-pany Had the representations of the defendant been true It Is claimed the stock purchased by the plaintiff would have been worth 512250 but that as a matter of fact said shares are not worth to exceed 1800 and plaintiff asks for judgment against the defendant defend-ant for 10450 with interest together with the costs and disbursements of the action acLon |
