Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. v. Dickenson

W. E. Dickenson, plaintiff in the court below and hereinafter so designated was, for some time prior to July, 1921, a coal miner in the employ of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company, hereinafter referred to as the company, and as an employee of the company occupied one of its houses under the terms and conditions of a written contract which bore date February 1, 1921. Omitting the formal parts and such as are unnecessary to the determination of the questions here involved, the contract provided:

“The lessor demises unto the lessee, for residence purposes only, that certain dwelling house…