Wickliffe v. First National Bank

*784Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

Appellee, the First National Bank of Central City, as assignee of Andrew Hogg, instituted this action against the appellants, W. A. Wickliffe and the W. A. Wickliffe Coal Company, seeking to recover of them, $16,500.00 alleged to be due under the following contract:

“Browder, Ky., Sept. 11,1909.

“Whereas I have given Andrew Hogg, of Drakesboro, Ky., an option to buy the property of the Wickliffe Coal Company at the price of $25.00 per acre, it being under - stood that the said company will have some 10,500 acres of fee simple and minerals together to…