Paull v. Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad

LYNCH, Judge:

The plaintiff sues in assumpsit to recover of defendant five thousand dollars damages for breach of contract. Succinctly stated, the contract averred is that plaintiff, a married woman, her husband joining, conveyed to defendant a lot in Wheeling, for $660 actually paid, with the further oral agreement that in the event defendant purchased any other of the lots described in the declaration as contiguous to or near' the lot conveyed by her it would pay her as further compensation the difference between $660' and the sum, whatever it might be, at which defendant should purchase any…