Barrick v. Board of Supervisors

This is an appeal involving two rezoning ordinances in Mathews County, wherein we are asked to decide whether the trial court properly granted the governing body’s motion to strike the contestants’ evidence and dismissed the complaints.

On May 23, 1988, Susan Barrick and seven other residents of Mathews county (contestants) filed two bills of complaint alleging that the Board of Supervisors of Mathews County (Board) acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in adopting two ordinances rezoning property in the county. The contestants asserted that the Board had illegally spot zoned a parcel…