City of Portsmouth v. Norfolk County
Supreme Court of Virginia
In March, 1877, the City of Portsmouth and the County of Norfolk entered into an agreement, which, reciting that -certain questions and disputes between these parties have arisen, and are now depending, they agree to submit them all to arbitration, except one pending suit named, and they proceed to set out these disputed subjects under fourteen separate heads, the fourteenth of which is • as follows: “ Fourteenth.
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In March, 1877, the City of Portsmouth and the County of Norfolk entered into an agreement, which, reciting that -certain questions and disputes between these parties have arisen, and are now depending, they agree to submit them all to arbitration, except one pending suit named, and they proceed to set out these disputed subjects under fourteen separate heads, the fourteenth of which is • as follows: “ Fourteenth. And all other questions of accounts or rights or title to real estate (with the exception before mentioned), including all matters and questions.in dispute between the said city and…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The City of Portsmouth was incorporated by an act of the legislature passed March 1, 1858. Another act, supplementary to the first, was passed 25th March, to provide for the disposition of the common property of the County of Norfolk and the City of Portsmouth. Subsequent to the passage of these aets, and the acceptance of the act of incorporation by the City of Portsmouth, a controversy arose between that city and the County of Norfolk, involving many troublesome questions as well as a large amount of property and money. Suits were instituted both at law and in equity, which promised to be…
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