Parks v. Evansville, Indianapolis, & Cleveland Straight Line Railroad

Eay, Ch. J.

Parks avers in his complaint that he made a subscription in 1853, payable in lands, to the capital 3tock of The Evansville, Indianapolis, and Cleveland Straight Line Railroad Company, on the condition that the railroad should be permanently located on the east side of White river, from Indianapolis to Spencer, within one mile of a line theretofore run by said company; that such location would have -passed through and near other lands of the plaintiff, enhancing their value; that, in pursuance of said contract he, in 1854, conveyed said lands to said company, and received…