Thompson v. City of Alexandria

AYRES, Judge.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiffs, nine property owners in the 3200 block of Nelson Street in the City of Alex*585andria, against the City and the Clerk of Court as ex-officio recorder for the purpose of having decreed illegal, null and void a local assessment ordinance and having erased from the records assessments against plaintiffs made pursuant to said ordinance. From a judgment in plaintiffs’ favor, the defendants appealed.

Plaintiffs’ property, abutting Nelson Street in the City of Alexandria, is located between Maryland Avenue and Texas Avenue. As such owners, they…