Hammond v. . Schiff

Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants appealed.

The plaintiffs, as tenants under a lease from John H. McAden, the owner, were in the occupation of a house and lot fronting on Trade Street in Charlotte, pursuing a mercantile business, in the year 1885, while the defendants, similarly engaged, were early in that year in possession of an adjoining lot with like frontage, under a contract of purchase made on 1 July, 1875, with Henry W. Fries, the building on which was consumed by fire in the month of February, 1885.

While the lots belonging, respectively, to said McAden and Fries, to wit:…