Atlantic & Danville Railway Co. v. Delaware Construction Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk, pronounced October 4, 1898, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
(The opinion was prepared by Judge Biely before his death, and subsequently adopted as the opinion of the court.)
Riely, J.*
An agreement in writing was entered into on August SO, 1894, between the Atlantic and Danville Bailway Company and Butherford & Brown, contractors, whereby the latter agreed and contracted to furnish all materials and labor for, and to construct, according to prepared plans and specifications, certain docks, piers, and warehouse, and to do certain dredging, for the said Bailway Company, at its western terminus at Norfolk, and to remove such old docks and pier work as was…
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