City of Williamsburg v. Lyell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City. Decree for complainant. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City, requiring the city of Williamsburg to specifically perform its covenant to renew a certain lease for a lot of land on Duke of Gloucester street in the city of Williamsburg.
The original lease was entered into on September 24, 1894, between the mayor and common council of the city of Williamsburg and J. B. C. Spencer and others, and by mesne conveyances became the property of John Milton Lyell.
The lease demised unto the grantees, their executors, administrators and assigns all that certain…
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