Preston v. Brashear

The petitioner, in his representative capacity, seeks to recover back from the defendant $1250, which he alleges was paid by his testator, the late Robert Layton, without any consideration whatever. Pie represents that the defendant, and a certain Thomas B. Warfield, as agent of the heirs of one R. R. Barr, covenanted and agreed to lay out and establish, according to a notarial act executed on the 20th of March, 1837, a commercial city or town, on the Golden Farm, a tract of land belonging to them, to be known as the town of Far West, and which town was to be forthwith, after the passing of…