City of Richmond v. Virginia Railway & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of city of Richmond. Decree for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court.
We will consider and pass upon the questions raised by the assignments of error and the positions of the appellant, the city of Richmond, and the Railway and Power Company, the appellee, in their order as stated below.
I. Is the municipal tax exemption above set forth valid?
If such question depended for its decision upon the enquiry as to the constitutionality of an act of the legislature authorizing such exemption, it would arise under sections 1 and 3, .of Article X of the Constitution of 1870. The…
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