Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York May 20, 1898 (Lewisohn Bros. v. Anaconda Copper-Min. Co.)

O’BRIEN, J.

Prior to the commencement of the action, F. Augustus Heinze, president of the Montana Ore-Purchasing Company, and acting on its behalf, offered the directors of the Anaconda Mining Company the sum of $100,000 for certain territory belonging to that company known as the “Sullivan Lot” and the “Snowbird Claim.