Mutual Assur. Society v. Holt
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the corporation court of Norfolk city, brought in April, 3 874, by the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, to subject the property in Norfolk known as the National Hotel, formerly French’s *hotel, to sale for the payment of quotas of insurance thereon for the years 3 863 to 1874. Prior to the year 3 836, the ground on which the hotel was built was owned in fee by the Mechanical Benevolent Society of Norfolk.
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This was a suit in equity in the corporation court of Norfolk city, brought in April, 3 874, by the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, to subject the property in Norfolk known as the National Hotel, formerly French’s *hotel, to sale for the payment of quotas of insurance thereon for the years 3 863 to 1874. Prior to the year 3 836, the ground on which the hotel was built was owned in fee by the Mechanical Benevolent Society of Norfolk. In that year this society leased the land at a ground rent of $400 to William and Daniel D. French for ten years from the 1st of January, 1837; and it was…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The building known as the National hotel in the city of Norfolk, was erected on a lot of land which was held by French’s Hotel Company, under a demise by deed from the Mechanical Benevolent Society of Norfolk for a term of ten years, renewable for ten years, and for every successive period of ten years, determinable at the election of the lessor, at the expiration of any term, upon six months’ notice, by taking the building and paying for it at valuation.
On the 1st of May, 1855, French’s Hotel Company, by deed conveyed, transferred and assigned all their right, title and in*544terest in the…
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