Legal Opinion
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. Willis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided December 1, 1958No. Record 4791PublishedCited by 9 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, C. J.
On April 6, 1953, The Chespeake & Ohio Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, filed its bill against Robert T. Willis and Mildred E. Willis, hereinafter referred to as the defendants, praying for specific performance of certain covenants in three deeds whereby the defendants’ remote predecessors in title had conveyed to the Virginia Central Railroad Company, the plaintiff’s remote predecessor in title, certain lands in Bath and Alleghany counties for the right of way along which the plaintiff now operates its trains. The bill alleged that the covenants in the deeds ran…
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