Adams Grain & Provision Co. v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

The essential facts of this case, from the standpoint of a demurrer to evidence, are these: Plaintiffs in error, who are wholesale dealers in hay, flour, grain, etc., leased from the defendant in error two-thirds of the floor space on the first floor of its two-story brick warehouse, located at the corner of Marshall and Seventeenth streets, in the city of Richmond. The leased space included the southern end of the building, and was partitioned off from the remainder of the floor, which together with all the rest of the building was reserved by the lessor and was wholly in its possession and…