You can relate this story "until the cows come home", but if there WAS a contract for Glen to do the OP's rails, how was it right for Glen to end up with the money AND the rails?
Unless I have missed something along the way, the contract called for the rails to have been worked on by Glen for a cost that was paid in advance. The obvious outcome would have been for Glen to have accepted the payment (which he did), fixed the rails (???), and given the OP his rails back (which he didn't do).
If there WAS a contract, then the stipulations of that contract was broken by Glen....and he stole those rails.
Are you saying that he was never paid in advance for the work that was agreed upon in the (one page
) contract? If that is truly the case, then that makes the OP a liar and a fraud.
We may never know the whole truth in this trainwreck.
And for what it's worth, a contract only works if both parties have a copy of it. Any businessman with any savvy would know this.
Maniac (WE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH :yikes