Legal Opinion
City of Fredericksburg v. Sanitary Grocery Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 11, 1937PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrowning, J.
In this case the City of Fredericksburg complains of the action of the corporation court of that city in overruling its motion to quash the application of the Sanitary Grocery Company, Inc., for the correction of an alleged erroneous assessment of license taxation, and requiring the city to restore to the applicant taxes in the sum of $1,000, which it had theretofore collected from it on account of such taxation.
The effect of the action of the court is to nullify and void the license tax feature of the city’s ordinance which was adopted by its council on December 13, 1932, and which is as…
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