Bright v. Lord

The facts averred in the appellant’s complaint are as follows:

That on the 1st clay of April, 1873, the appellant entered into a provisional contract with John M. Lord, John Lord, and Charles M. Lord, by which they agreed to sell to the appellant five hundred and twenty shares of the capital stock of the Indianapolis Rolling Mill Company, of fifty dollars each, for the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, at the option of the appellant, to be by him taken at any time on or before the 18th day of June, 1873, to bo paid for on delivery ; that before the expiration of said option, on the 14th day of…