Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Lee county, pronounced March 24, 1894, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees were the complainants and the appellant was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The appellees filed their bill in the Circuit Court of Lee county to annul and set aside proceedings instituted in the County Court of that county by the appellant for the purpose of condemning a right of way through their lands, under chapter 46 of the Code.
The ground upon which they base their right to the relief prayed for and granted them by the Circuit Court is that the judge of the County Court was the counsel of the appellant in those proceedings at the same time that he was entering orders in the cause.
The record shows, and it is admitted, that during the time these proceedings were…
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