Clark v. Great Northern Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Washington
Suit by F. Lewis Clark and others against the Great Northern Railway Company and others to enforce specific performance of a contract.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
This is a suit to compel the defendants to specifically perform an alleged contract whereby they promised, in consideration of receiving, free of expense to them, a right of way for their line of railway through the city of Spokane, to give to the people of Spokane and vicinity the benefit of transportation of through freight from the east at terminal rates. The bill of complaint avers that after some preliminary and preparatory work on the part of Mr. James J. Hill, a high official of the defendant companies, by representations made to citizens of Spokane there was a…
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