Reeves v. Grottendick

Thirty precepts to enforce the collection of assessments levied for the cost of improving a street in the city of Richmond were .issued against lots owned by the appellants. From these precepts separate appeals were prosecuted, but the trial court and the parties acted upon the theory that the appeals constituted a single case. The rule is that the appellate tribunal will act upon the theory voluntarily assumed in the trial court, and, under this rule, we shall regard the record as presenting a single case for our consideration.

Our statute provides that the transcript certified to the circuit…