Commonwealth v. Trustees of Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Elizabeth City county in a proceeding by motion to correct an erroneous assessment. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Hampton Formal and Agricultural Institute was incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved June 4, 1870, “For the instruction of youth in the various common school, academic and collegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same, and the best mode of practical industry in its application to agriculture and the mechanic arts; and for the carrying out of these purposes the said trustees may establish any departments or schools in the said institution.”
The corporation thus formed acquired several tracts of land in…
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