Omaha Wool & Storage Co. v. Chicago Great Western Railroad

This is a suit for the specific performance of an option to purchase at the agreed price of $7,500 a warehouse site in Omaha on the right of .way of the Mason City & Fort Dodge Railway Company, defendant, the agreement having been inserted in a lease providing for the payment of an annual rental of $441 for the same premises. Charles Henry King was lessee and assigned the lease to plaintiff. The railroad company named held title to the leased land. Its corporate stock, except five shares, was owned by the Chicago Great Western Railway Company which, under a lease, operated the lines of the…