Trout v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Roanoke in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
'Chis is an action of assumpsit in which the plaintiff claims the right to recover the value of certain real estate which he had conveyed to the defendant company.
The declaration contains the common counts in assumpsit, aud two special counts. The first special count alleges that the plaintiff agreed to convey to the defendant certain parts of a tract of land, provided the defendant would pay him the sum of $2,999 in cash, and would also construct, open and maintain across the land to be conveyed and under the defendant’s railway tracks a roadway thirty feet wide, of which twenty-four feet…
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