Burk v. Porter

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to a bill of complaint, styled “NOAH J. BURK v. J. L. PORTER, III [,] HAROLD MITCHELL [,] DANNY BROWN, Members of the Board of Supervisors of Russell County, Virginia”. The bill prayed for an accounting and a decree “ordering the Defendants to reimburse the taxpayers of Russell County for . . . illegal expenditures” of public funds. Burk alleged that he was a resident and taxpayer of Russell County; that the defendants withdrew County funds for the purpose of paying their expenses for “a trip from Lebanon, Virginia to San Francisco,…