F. W. Wise Co. v. Beech Creek Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

Plaintiff-appellee (Wise) sued the three railroad company defendants, all part of The New York. Central System (herein collectively referred to as “the Railroad”) jointly for damages-for breach of an alleged contract to sell to Wise for the sum of $15,000 certain real estate owned by the Railroad in the Borough of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, and not needed for railroad purposes (“the property”). The defenses of the Raib road were that no contract had been entered into; that, if .there were a contract, it was made by agents, who had no authority to bind the…