Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. City of Newport News
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 16, 1932PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEpes, J.
This is a bill brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of the Attorney-General, acting under the authority and direction of the Governor, against the city of Newport News and the members of its city council. The primary purpose of the bill is to restrain the city from dumping untreated sewage into Hampton Roads, and thereby polluting the oyster bottoms in the Roads and its *527estuaries. The defendants demurred to the bill. The court Sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill; and the cause is here on an appeal from that decree. 1 ’ >
iThe bill alleges that the city is now…
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