Alder v. Yager

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Affirming.

J. W. Yager is a bank cashier living at Lagrange; he owned a farm near Lagrange in the spring of 1922 which he desired to sell. P. M. Alder owned a coal mine in Knox county at that time which he also desired to sell. He came to Lagrange and looked over Yager’s farm; Yager then went to Knox county to look over the coal mine. After he had seen the coal mine, on April 11,1922, a written contract was made between them by which Alder sold to Yager all the shares of stock of the Alder Steel Coal Company and a small boundary of land on which there…