Powell v. Supervisors of Brunswick County
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Brunswick county, rendered February 26th, 1890, in a chancery suit instituted by R. S. Powell and others, citizens and tax-payers of said county, against the board of supervisors thereof and the Atlantic and Danville Railroad Company.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Brunswick county, rendered February 26th, 1890, in a chancery suit instituted by R. S. Powell and others, citizens and tax-payers of said county, against the board of supervisors thereof and the Atlantic and Danville Railroad Company. The object of the suit was to enjoin said board from issuing any more of the bonds of said county, and the said company from disposing of such of said, bonds as may have been already issued, as a subscription to said company. The court below having dismissed the bill at the hearing of the cause, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill was filed by the appellants in the circuit court of Brunswick county on the 25th day of March, 1889, against the board of supervisors of said county and their successors in office to enjoin them from issuing the bonds of the county of Brunswick as a subscription to the Atlantic and Danville Railroad Company thereafter, and to enjoin and restrain the said “ The Atlantic and Danville Railroad Company ” from disposing or parting with the bonds of the said county, theretofore issued on subscription to the said corporation, and now in the hands…
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