Wades v. Figgatt
Supreme Court of Virginia
John J. Wade and James Wade, being the owners of the Yellow Sulphur Springs, in Montgomery county, Va., made a contract in the fall of 1875, with Alfred Beckley, Stuart H. Beckley and G. W. McChesney, under the firm name of A. Beckley & Co., to lease to said firm the Springs property for the term of three years with the privilege to the lessees of retaining the property for two years additional.
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John J. Wade and James Wade, being the owners of the Yellow Sulphur Springs, in Montgomery county, Va., made a contract in the fall of 1875, with Alfred Beckley, Stuart H. Beckley and G. W. McChesney, under the firm name of A. Beckley & Co., to lease to said firm the Springs property for the term of three years with the privilege to the lessees of retaining the property for two years additional. The term was to commence January 1st, 1876; rent for the first year to be $2,500; for the second, $2,750; for the third, $3,000, and $3,000 for the fourth and fifth years, if the lease continued so…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
By the statute law of this State (Code of 1873, chap. 134), it is provided (§ 11) that “ distress for rent may be levied ■on any goods of the lessee, or his assignee, or under tenant found on the premises, or which may have been removed therefrom not more than thirty days. If the goods of such .lessee, assignee, or under tenant, when carried on the premises are subject to a lien, which is valid against his creditors, his interest only in such goods shall be liable to such ■distress. If any lien be created thereon while they are upon the leased premises, they shall be liable to distress, but…
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