Ottawa, Oswego & Fox River Valley R. R. v. McMath

This action was brought by the Ottawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Railroad Co., for the use of Joseph Jackson v. Samuel McMath, on a contract purporting to be executed by him and his co-partner, Volutfield, to pay the said railroad company $1,000 when the iron was laid on the roadbed from Wenona, in Marshall county, to within one-half a mile of Milford, in certain installments, and to receive in consideration thereof an equal amount of the capital stock of the railroad company. There were three special counts in the declaration declaring upon the contract, and a plea of the general issue…