Wallace v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, rendered November 27, 1893, in an action of assumpsit wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtCabdwell, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond.
The suit was brought in June, 1871, to recover of the defendants in error, the city of Richmond, the value of liquor claimed to have been the propeity of the plaintiff in error, of the alleged value of $30,000, destroyed during the night of April 2, 1865, but a few hours before the city was evacuated by the Confederate forces and entered by the Federal army.
The resolutions adopted by the council of the city at a called meeting of that body in the afternoon of April 2, 1865, and by authority of which it is…
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