HOFFSTOT v. DICKINSON

Civil Action No. 641.

71 F.Supp. 897 (1947)

HOFFSTOT v. DICKINSON et al.

District Court, S. D. West Virginia.

April 30, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, of Pittsburgh, Pa. (by John B. Gordon, of Pittsburgh, Pa.), and Steptoe & Johnson, of Charleston, W. Va. (by Robert W. Lawson, Jr., of Charleston, W. Va.), for plaintiff.

Payne, Minor & Ray, of Charleston, W. Va. (John V. Ray, of Charleston, W. Va.), for defendants John L. Dickinson and Maude H. Dickinson, his wife.

Townsend & Townsend, of Charleston, W. Va. (by Hillis V. Townsend, of Charleston, W. Va.), for defendants J. N. Berthy, Jr., and Rose H. Berthy, his wife.

Campbell, McClintic & James, of Charleston, W. Va. (by J. Hunter McClintic, of Charleston, W. Va.), for defendants T. J. Blair and Emma D. Blair, his wife.


MOORE, District Judge.

Plaintiff has brought an action against defendants in which he alleges that defendants agreed to convey to him a tract of approximately 400 acres of land in Nicholas County, West Virginia, containing 197 acres of coal, and being part of a large boundary of several thousand acres owned by defendants, at the price of $100 per acre, based on coal acreage alone, or $19,700. He alleges further that he expended $10,000 in tests and improvements on...

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