McKinnon v. Corp. of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff initiated this action to recover fifteen million dollars in damages which he allegedly sustained by defendant’s breach of an oral contract to convey a haulage way for coal over certain federal lands in which defendant had a leasehold interest. After engaging in extensive discovery, defendant moved for summary judgment, which the trial court granted. Plaintiff appeals therefrom.

In February, 1959, plaintiff sold the fee title of a 480 acre parcel of coal bearing land to defendant for the sum of $264,000. In March of the same year, plaintiff proposed to…