Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Adamson

The appellees describe in their complaint a tract of land owned by them and Nellie Adamson in October, 1880, and allege that they and Nellie Adamson entered into *283a contract with the appellant. The statement of the contract — not a dear one — is as follows, viz.:

“ That they (the plaintiffs) should execute to the defendant a quitclaim deed for a strip, of land out of said land one hundred feet wide and four hundred and thirty-five feet long, and permit the defendant to construct and extend an embankment from its then terminus over said land in an easterly ■direction until it should meet with…