Walker v. City of Richmond

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

-Affirming in part and reversing in part.

The appellants and defendants below, J. M. Walker and others, are the owners as devisees of Joel J. Walker, deceased, of a parcel of land situated in the city of Richmond and fronting on Lancaster avenue a distance of 434.4 feet on its east side. By appropriate pleadings, the correctness of which is not questioned, the city reconstructed Lancaster avenue at a cost of one-third to the city and one-third to the property owners -on either side thereof,- and the cost against defendants’ property was assessed at $2,648.46,…