Legal Opinion
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad v. Board of Supervisors of Northampton County
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 12, 1896PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Northampton county, pronounced April 20, 1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
The question involved in this case is the power of the appellee, the Board of Supervisors of Northampton county, to tax the appellant company, the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company, for district school purposes.
The levy in question is as follows: “At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Northampton county, held by adjournment, in and for said county, on the 19th day of September, A. D. 1892 :
“ Ordered, that a tax of fifteen cents be levied upon every hundred dollars of the assessed value of all property, real and persona], and incomes, in Franktown School District, in…
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