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HERCULES POWDER COMPANY v. CONTINENTAL CAN CO.

86 S.E.2d 128 (1955)

196 Va. 935

HERCULES POWDER COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, v. CONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY, Incorporated.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 7, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. R. L. Johnson, Jr., Wilmington, Del., Hunton, Williams, Gay, Moore & Powell, H. Merrill Pasco, Robert P. Buford, Jr., Richmond, for plaintiff in error.

McGuire, Eggleston, Bocock & Woods, William H. King, Richmond, Bohannan, Bohannan & Kinsey, Petersburg, Willkie, Owen, Farr, Gallagher & Walton, New York City, for defendant in error.

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

SMITH, Justice.

During World War I, E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company operated in Hopewell a large gun cotton factory and employed almost all of the employable labor in that area. The management of this company appreciated the situation of a community dependent upon one industry and when its factory ceased operations with the war's end it devised a plan for the purpose of making Hopewell a "Selective, Diversified, Industrial Community." The Du Pont Chemical Company...

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