County of Brunswick v. Peebles & Purdy Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Brunswick county, in a proceeding to correct an erroneous assessment. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Brunswick county, in a proceeding to correct an erroneous assessment. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This is a proceeding under the statute, instituted in the court below by the defendants in error, Peebles & Purdy Company (hereinafter called applicant), seeking relief from assessments of certain county levies for county free school purposes, laid by the board of supervisors of the plaintiff in error, the county of Brunswick, for the years 1921 and 1922, upon certain real estate of the applicant located; and certain merchants’…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, P.,
after making the foregoing statement, de-t livered the following opinion of the court:
The assignments of error present a single question for our decision, which is as follows:
[1] 1. Did the above mentioned constitutional and statutory provisions confer upon the county the right to impose the taxes in question for county school purposes upon property of the character above mentioned within the town of Lawrenceville, which, although it is a separate school district, is embraced within the territorial limits of the county?
The question must be answered in the affirmative.
The…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Robertson v. PrestonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
- Campbell v. BryantSupreme Court of Virginia · 1905
- Day v. RobertsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1903
- Watkins v. BarrowCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1917
- Supervisors of Washington County v. Saltville Land Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1901
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