Buffalo v. Town of Pocahontas
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Tazewell county, entered at its November term, 1887, in tbe chancery cause of William Buffalo and numerous other citizens of the town of Pocahontas, complainants, against the said town, Michael JRupert, sergeant of said town, and the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Tazewell county, entered at its November term, 1887, in tbe chancery cause of William Buffalo and numerous other citizens of the town of Pocahontas, complainants, against the said town, Michael JRupert, sergeant of said town, and the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, defendants. At the hearing the injunction, which had been awarded on the prayer of the complainants, was dissolved and their bill dismissed with costs, and they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill was filed by William Buffalo, William Aiken, Willoughby Miller, C. H. Jones and E. Turner, “tax-payers and inhabitants of the town of Pocahontas, suing for themselves and fifteen hundred other persons similarly situated,” in which they charge that they have been notified in writing by one Mike Bupert, sergeant of the town, to work the streets of the town for two days, or to pay in money eighty cents per day. The bill also charges that this notice was given without any legal authority whatever, either on the part of the officer by whom it…
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