Morgan v. Roberts

The question arising upon this record is mainly as to the proper construction of the contract made by the parties to this suit, and the alleged abandonment of the same.

It appears from the testimony, that Morgan had been a large contractor with the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad Company, out of which, as he claimed, heavy damages had accrued to him, both for estimates on the work he had performed, and on account of the prospective profits he would have made on the work, if he had not been discharged by the Company.

This being the position of Morgan, he, on the eleventh day of October, 1856,…