Keefer v. United Electric Coal Companies

Plaintiff appellant filed suit for damages for breach of a written contract based on defendant’s refusal to purchase coal lands in Fulton county, Illinois. The court sustained a motion by defendant to dismiss the second amended declaration of the plaintiff and entered a judgment in bar of the action from which the plaintiff appeals.

The declaration as amended alleges that the plaintiff, on January 2,1925, was the owner in fee simple of 220 acres of land in Fulton county, Illinois, commonly known and designated as the “Strode and Hilton land,” and on that day executed and delivered to the…