Stevens v. Corbitt

Marston, J:

Plaintiff in error executed and delivered an instrument in writing, of which the following is a copy:

“$321 00. Stanton, Mich., July 8, 1872.

“For value received, I promise to pay to the order of H. H. Smith, Esq., three hundred and twenty-one dollars, one year from the time when the railroad proposed to be built on some point on Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad, not more than five miles from the station of that company in Ionia, north to Stanton, shall be open, and *460trains shall pass over it to and from Stanton to said point of junction; the said road, under present or…