Lynchburg & Rivermont Street Railway Co. v. Dameron
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Lynchburg, pronounced December 5, 1895, in a suit in chaneery, wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellant and the city of Lynchburg were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The hill in this case was filed to restrain the city of Lynch-burg, its officers and agents, from endorsing or guaranteeing certain bonds which the Lynchburg and Kivermont Street Kailway Company, the appellant here, proposed to issue, and which the city had agreed to guarantee; and to annul that agreement upon the ground that it was ultra vires, and void.
The jurisdiction of a court of equity to restrain a municipal corporation and its officers from levying and collecting an unauthorized tax, or from creating an unauthorized debt, upon the application of one or more tax-payers of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Roper v. McWhorterSupreme Court of Virginia · 1883
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