Hancock v. Whitehall Tobacco Warehouse Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeals from decrees of the Circuit Court of Buckingham county, pronounced December 6, 1901, and December 30, 1901, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellees, Hubard & trustees, were the complainants, and the appellants and others were the defendants; and from a decree of said court, June 22, 1901, in a suit in chancery wherein the was the complainant, and the appellee, Whitehall Tobacco Warehouse Company, was the defendant; the two appeals being heard together.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court..
A. J. Hancock, doing business under the style of the Lynch-burg Tobacco Company, in May, 1901, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Buckingham county, from which it appears that on the 17th of March, 1898, the Whitehall Tobacco Warehouse Company agreed to erect for it and have ready for occupancy October 1, 1898, a tobacco factory at Whitehall, according to the specifications contained in the contract, to be constructed in a substantial manner, and “to be equipped with modern appliances for the proper steaming and handling of tobacco;” that the…
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