Carson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., Thompson

The sole question is whether appellant is owner of bauxite deposit on forty acres in Saline county, upon which'he has been living for fifty-six years, or whether appellee owns same by virtue of a reservation in the contract of sale and in the deed by which its predecessor conveyed the l$nd to appellant.

On August'21, 1892, appellant bought this land from appellee’s predecessor in title, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Bailway Company, and entered into a written agreement of purchase with it by which he agreed to pay for it the sum of $129. This agreement contained the following…