Anchor Co. v. Adams

Anchor Company, Inc., is here complaining of an adverse verdict and judgment in favor of Adams and Barbour. These facts are clearly shown:

The defendant corporation owned a building in the city of Roanoke upon which Mrs. Henry Turner had a lease which expired December 31, 1921. The room *390was used as a lunchroom., and finding her business unsatisfactory, she agreed with Adams and Barbour to sell out to them and to assign her lease as of September 1, 1921, for a cash consideration of $1,000.00. Before concluding this bargain, however, Adams and Barbour approached the defendant for an extension of…