Page v. Commonwealth

The council of the city of Norfolk passed an ordinance on January 14, 1930, directing the city manager to purchase a tract of 14,841 acres of land, situated on Chesapeake bay at Little creek, for the purpose of providing a bathing beach and recreation park for the colored inhabitants of the city, and appropriating $14,841.00 for that purpose, and further providing that in the event the city manager was unable to purchase the property, which was owned by the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company and under lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, it should be condemned.

The city…