McCLELLAN v. ASHLEY


104 S.E.2d 55 (1958)

200 Va. 38

Joseph Lee McCLELLAN v. Douglas L. ASHLEY et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Goad, Lovingston, for appellant.

William M. McClenny, Amherst, for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE and SNEAD, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

The question in this case is whether a court of equity should relieve a lessee of the consequences of his failure to give a notice of renewal as required by the lease.

The lease was made by Douglas L. Ashley and his wife, the appellees, to Joseph Lee McClellan, the appellant, and was dated October 23, 1954. By it the lessors leased to the lessee a lot of approximately one acre on U. S. Highway 29, about a mile south of the town of Lovingston...

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