Legal Opinion
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. City of Newport News
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 17, 1955No. Record 4284PublishedCited by 14 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSpratley, J.
The plaintiff, The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, is now and has been for many years operating its telephone business, both in interstate and intrastate commerce, within the City of Newport News, Virginia. The franchise under which it formerly operated expired December 31, 1950. That franchise required no payment of money to the City; but expressly reserved to the City the right to impose any.lawful tax. By ordinance, the City imposed an annual license tax of $2,000, plus $1.00 per pole, and $1.00 per one hundred feet of conduit.
In October, 1950, negotiations were…
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