25 Or. 412 | Or. | 1894
Opinion by
To maintain the issues on its part, the defendant, after showing that the business for which it was organized, and in which it was and is engaged, is contracting for and carrying United States mails, express, and passengers, and subletting mail contracts, produced and submitted evidence tending to show that in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the plaintiff and Mr. Salisbury, the president and general manager of defendant, entered into a contract by which it was agreed that the defendant should bid on certain mail routes in Washington and Oregon, soon to be let by the government, and that plaintiff and defendant should have an equal interest in such contracts as might be secured; that plaintiff should