Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. American Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “The lease could have provided for cancellation by [lessor] without liability to [lessee] in event of the property leased was taken in a condemnation or similar proceeding.”
• “Of course, if the lease itself includes a provision in respect of the rights of the parties in the event of the condemnation of the leased premises, such provision is valid and controlling.”
• “Where it appears that the lessor has given the tenant adequate notice of its intention to cancel, the lease is deemed terminated and the tenant is precluded from sharing in the lessor’s condemnation award”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).