Bowe v. Scott
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond. Decree for the defendants. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
*500The principal question presented by this appeal involves the right of individuals (owning real estate in the city of Richmond, but whose lots do not abut on the section of the public alley obstructed, and who have not suffered any peculiar damage therefrom) to have declared null and void a city ordinance authorizing the closing, for the period of thirty years, of a public alley reaching from Shafer street to Harrison street, to the extent to which it bisects the respective lots of the appellants, Elizabeth S. Scott and E. T. D. Myers, Jr.; also to injoin the defendants from closing any…
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