Campbell v. Bryant
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree in chancery of the Circuit Court of Amherst county. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaeuisoN, J.
By an act of the General Assembly, approved March 14, *5111904 (Acts, 1904, p. 283), entitled, “an act to incorporate tbe town of Madison Heights, in Amherst county,” it was enacted that the territory in Amherst county contained within the limits set forth and described in section two of the act should be deemed and taken as the town of Madison Heights, and that the inhabitants thereof should be a body politic under that name for all purposes for which towns are incorporated in this Commonwealth. By the terms of the act, the charter thereby created was not to become operative until it had…
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