Legal Opinion

Crafford v. Supervisors of Warwick County

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 20, 1890PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from circuit court of Warwick county, rendered March 22d, 1889, in an injunction suit wherein John H. Crafford and others, citizens, tax-payers, and voters of the said county (and the appellants here), are complainants, and the board of supervisors of said county are defendants. Opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.

The decree appealed from dissolved an injunction awarded by the judge of the corporation court of the city of Manchester, enjoining and restraining ' the said defendants in said suit, the said board of supervisors of the county of War*111wick, their agents, successors, &c., from pulling down and removing the court-house, clerk’s office and jail of the said county of Warwick, which the said defendants were proceeding to do, in consequence of the result of an election held in said county under the order of the county court of said county, made in pursuance and by virtue of the authority of an act…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of PawletSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  2. Ex parte BurrU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · 1823
  3. Balt. & Ohio R. R. v. Gallahue's adm'rsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1855
  4. President for erecting a Bridge over the River Lehigh v. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
  5. Wright v. New York Central Rail RoadNew York Supreme Court · 1858

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Federated Graphics Companies, Inc. v. NapotnikDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1976
  2. Slaughter v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1856

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