Town of Mechanicsville v. State Appeal Board

The question presented is whether, as the district court held, the State Appeal Board (herein called “board”) exceeded its jurisdiction in disapproving proposed street improvements in plaintiff, Town of Mechanicsville. From decree annulling the board’s decision certain taxpayers in the town who intervened in the certiorari action in the district court have appealed to us.

A resolution of necessity was introduced in the Mechaniesville town council providing for paving many of its streets, together with curb and gutter and storm sewer. It provided that so much of the cost of the improvements as…