Hoard v. Railroad Co.

BRANNON, PRESIDENT:

S. Floyd Hoard and Pitt Hoard sold to the Huntington & Big Sandy Railroad Company land for right of way for the railroad through the town of Geredo bjr the following contract:

“To the Huntington & Big Sandy Kailroad Company: We sell you right of way for your road through our property in Ceredo — for the sum of ten thousand dollars — to be paid one-third cash when deed is made, and the residue in one or. two years thereafter, with interest on deferred payments, reserving vendor’s lien in said deed to secure deferred payments. The lands herein proposed to be sold and conveyed…