City of Louisa v. Bromley

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

The city of Louisa, a city of the fifth class, brought this suit against Telia Bromley and C. B. Bromley to enforce its lien for $1,134.29 on defendants’ property abutting upon Water street and Powhatan street for the original construction of these streets , ordered under an ordinance adopted in May, 1925. The defendants admitted that they were indebted for the cost of the construction of streets on which their property abutted, but alleged in their answer that the cost of construction of two intersections had been included in the assessment…