WELLS v. SHOOSMITH

Record No. 921016.

428 S.E.2d 909 (1993)

William A. WELLS, et al. v. Jack A. SHOOSMITH, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Scott Street, III, Richmond (Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, on briefs), for appellants.

William G. Broaddus, Richmond (Thomas L. Newton, Jr., Therence O. Pickett, Richmond, John E. Dodson, Chesterfield, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Gordon, Dodson & Gordon, Chesterfield, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

In this declaratory judgment suit, filed by property owners who bought a farm subject to two leases, we consider two issues: First, whether the complainants introduced sufficient evidence to raise an issue of the invalidity of the leases because of alleged inadequacies in the descriptions of the demised properties; second, whether the complainants, as successors in title to the original lessors, have standing to attack the adequacy of the agreed...

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