Jewett v. Lawrenceburgh & Upper Mississippi Railroad

Jewett sued the company to recover back a sum of money paid, and the price of a tract of land conveyed to the company, in payment of his subscription for stock.

The first count alleges that the subscription was made on the condition that the road should be located within 20 rods of St. Omer, and the money and property given for the stock, expended between St. Omer and Greensburgh; that after the subscription was made, the company located their road within that distance from St. Omer, and commenced working on it, and that afterwards the plaintiff paid for his stock; that subsequently the…