Beale v. Pankey

The town of Pamplin City, Virginia, was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 24, 1874 (Acts 3 874, p. 3 38) the title of the act being “An act incorporating Pamplin City, Virginia.” The first section of the act declared that the town of Pamplin, in the counties of Appomattox and Prince Edward, as the same had been theretofore laid off into lots, streets, etc., should be and was thereby made a town corporate, by the name of Pamplin City, and by that name to have and exercise the powers conferred upon towns by the general laws then in force, or which might thereafter…