SNYDER v. EXUM

Record No. 811674.

315 S.E.2d 216 (1984)

Harry L. SNYDER v. Joseph L. EXUM, Jr. and Jimmie R. Exum.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 27, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard I. Legum, Norfolk (Morris H. Fine, Fine, Fine, Legum & Fine, Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

Edwin C. Kellam, Norfolk (Kellam, Pickrell & Lawler, Norfolk, on brief), for appellees.

Before COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, RUSSELL, STEPHENSON and THOMAS, JJ., and GORDON, Retired Justice.


THOMAS, Justice.

This appeal focuses upon the meaning of a rent acceleration clause in a written lease. We must first determine whether the clause is mandatory or optional. Once we resolve that question, we must then decide whether the lessor, in suing for rent from a defaulting lessee, was required, in light of the acceleration clause, to institute a single suit to collect all the rent at one time or whether he had the option to bring multiple suits to collect the...

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