Truslow v. Parkersburg Bridge & Terminal Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Wood County. Bill by Mary J. Truslow and others against the Parkers-burg Bridge & Terminal Railroad Company and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendant railroad company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Sanders, President:
The Parkersburg Bridge and Terminal Railroad Company employed J. M. Mitchell to procure for it options on certain property on the south side of the Little Kanawha River from Parkersburg. For this service he was to receive a fixed compensation per day. Acting in this capacity, he took from the plaintiffs, Emma J. and W. E. Truslow, on the 21st day of November, 1902, an option on certain property owned by them, the title to which was in the female plaintiff, for which property the sum of sixteen hundred dollars was to be paid. The option was taken in the name of J. A.…
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