Wisconsin Supreme Court June 15, 1872 (Grannis v. Hooker)

Cole, J.

This action was brought to recover back five hundred dollars, tbe amount which tbe plaintiff subscribed and paid for an interest in an oil well. These parties, with many others, were subscribers to a fund raised for tbe purpose of buying oil lands, and tbe defendant was appointed on tbe committee to go to Yirginia and examine some oil lands which tbe subscribers bad thought of purchasing