County of Chesterfield v. Town & Country Apartments & Townhouses

Code § 15.1-554 provides as follows:

“No action shall be maintained by any person against a county upon any claim or demand until such person shall have first presented his claim to the board of supervisors of such county for allowance.”

The determinative question in this case is whether failure to comply with the foregoing Code section bars the maintenance against a county of a declaratory judgment proceeding which basically involves, so far as the county is concerned, a contractual dispute and a resulting monetary claim against the county. We answer the question in the affirmative.

The present…