Hill v. Rich Hill Coal Mining Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Bates Circuit Court. — Hon. James H. Lay, Judge. The plaintiff instituted this proceeding to obtain specific performance of an alleged contract, made with the defendant corporation, for the purchase of a certain tract of land in Bates county, known as the “Robert M. Hcmdley Land,” and particularly described in the petition. The pleadings are very voluminous.
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Appeal from Bates Circuit Court. — Hon. James H. Lay, Judge. The plaintiff instituted this proceeding to obtain specific performance of an alleged contract, made with the defendant corporation, for the purchase of a certain tract of land in Bates county, known as the “Robert M. Hcmdley Land,” and particularly described in the petition. The pleadings are very voluminous. The answer, besides a general denial except as to the incorporation of defendant, contains a number of defenses, which, so far as necessary, will be adverted to hereafter, as well as the reply, which was lengthy. There was…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
I. Under charter provisions, the board of directors of the defendant corporation is composed of five members, and at the time the facts occurred which gave origin to the present litigation, and since that date, consisted of the following persons, to-wit, Edwin A. Gould, R. M. McDowell, W. P. Coleman, James A. Hill, and W. S. Hill. Edwin Gould was president of the corporation, and McDowell general manager. In this posture of affairs, the following proposition, being the same referred to in plaintiff’s petition, was made to defendant by plaintiff:
“Rich Hill, Mo., May 19,1890.
11 Mr. Fdwin Gould,…
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