City of Norfolk v. Nottingham
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk, pronounced April 25, 1895, in three chancery suits heard together, in which the appellees, respectively, were the complainants, and in each of which the city of Norfolk, appellant, was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On August 21, 1890, the Street Inspector of Norfolk city notified Nottingham and others to remove all obstructions upon areas indicated as streets on the maps on file in the clerk’s office of the court of Norfolk county lying south of what is designated as Front street on said maps. Thereupon the parties so notified filed their several bills in chancery in the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, making said city and its inspector defendants, claiming said areas as their fee-simple property, and praying for an injunction against the threatened…
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