City of Richmond v. Sutherland
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond awarding a writ of prohibition.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The question involved in this case is whether or not a police justice of the city of Richmond has jurisdiction of a prosecution instituted by that city against the defendant in error for an alleged violation of an ordinance of the city, prohibiting encroachments upon its streets and alleys, when it is made to appear that the right to impose the penalty provided by the ordinance involves the validity of a bona fide claim of title to real estate.
That the police justice did not have such jurisdiction under the charter of the city, or under the general laws as they existed in May, 1907, was…
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