Dowlin v. New Orleans & Nashville Rail Road

The New Orleans and Nashville Rail Road Company is appellant from a judgment, by which the plaintiff has recovered the price of several squares of ground in the town of Uncle Sam, the sale of which has been rescinded on account of the Company’s failure in fulfilling the conditions of the sale. The sale took place in January, 1837, on a plan which promised that the rail road should traverse the town, which was to be embellished by a theatre, hotel, Catholic, Episcopal, Congregational, Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Free churches, two public squares, a stock fair, and a canal and. park.…