Powers v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Richmond, in which the city of Richmond was allowed to file its petition. Decree for the petitioner. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The city of Richmond filed its petition in the pending cause of Powers v. Powers, alleging that certain property known as No. 3116 east Broad street, Richmond, Va., had been purchased by direction of the court in that cause for thé use of Annie I. .Talley (who was the widow of Jefferson Powers, deceased), during her life, with remainder to the appellants, his children; and asserting the claim of the city to a lien for $774.61 and interest, alleged to be due for taxes thereon from 1905 to 1915, inclusive. These taxes had accrued during the time the property was held and occupied by Mrs.…
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