Board of Supervisors v. Georgetown Land Co.

Georgetown Land Company, a corporation, or the land company, as it will be called, filed a bill of complaint against the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, or the board, as it will be referred to, seeking a declaratory judgment (Code, § 8-578) that an amendment to Section 2-16 of the subdivision ordinance of Loudoun County was “void and otherwise invalid.” The board filed its answer denying the invalidity of the amendment in question.

The chancellor held that evidence was unnecessary for the disposition of the cause and ruled that the challenged amendment was, on its face,…