Nexsen v. Board of Supervisors

This is a proceeding under Code, sections 2956 and 2957, brought by fifty-one per cent of the qualified voters in territory adjacent to the city of Newport News, seeking its annexation to that city. The territory involved embraces the incorporated town of Kecoughtan (Kic-o-tan), which adjoins the city, together with some other territory adjacent to the town but not directly adjacent to the city.

The procedure appears to have been regular, and the issue tendered by demurrer, plea and answer is whether or not the provisions of section 2956 should be construed to apply to the annexation of an…