Johnson v. Roanoke Land & Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of hustings court of city of. Roanoke, rendered 23d April, 1886, in a chancery cause therein pending wherein J. G. Johnson is complainant and the Roanoke Land and Improvement Company is defendant.
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Appeal from decree of hustings court of city of. Roanoke, rendered 23d April, 1886, in a chancery cause therein pending wherein J. G. Johnson is complainant and the Roanoke Land and Improvement Company is defendant. The bill alleges that in the month of August, 1883, the complainant entered into two written contracts under seal with the defendant company for the building of several dwelling-houses in the city of Roanoke; that when the contracts were entered into, it was the understanding that the defendant company would have duplicates made, one for each of the parties, and for this purpose…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill alleges that the defendant company wrongfully and in violation of the understanding between the parties, withheld copies of the sealed contracts until after the completion of the work, but, nevertheless, directed, and received the benefit of, many alterations in the original plan of the work, which involved the expenditure of much additional time and money by the complainant.
These allegations the demurrer admits to be true.
Ought the.company, then, being thus in default, and having received the benefit of the complainant’s expenditures, to…
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