Legal Opinion
Coggeshall v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1938No. 4268PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.
The* appellant, J. R. Coggeshall, and others, on June 5, 1934, executed and delivered to the United States of America, an option to purchase a tract of land in Berkeley county, South Carolina, estimated in the option as containing 3,626 acres, at a price of $4 per acre. On June 22, 1934, the National Forest Reservation Commission approved the purchase, and on the same date the vendors - were notified by the proper authorities of the government’s election to purchase the land according to the terms of the option.
The option contained the following provisions: “That in…
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