Hoffstot v. Dickinson

MO.ORE, District Judge.

Plaintiff, has brought an action against defendants in which he alleges that defendants agreed to convey to him a tract of approximately 400 acres of land in Nicholas County, West Virginia, containing 197 acres of coal, and being part of a large boundary of several thousand acres owned by defendants, at the price of $100 per acre, based on coal acreage alone, or $19,-700. He alleges further that he expended $10,000 in tests and improvements on the land in reliance upon the alleged agreement to convey. He further alleges that the property is worth $226,200. He charges…