Town of Christiansburg v. Montgomery County

In this annexation case, the trial court awarded the Town of Christiansburg 3.028 square miles of Montgomery County territory adjacent to town boundaries. In its decree, the court ordered the Town to pay the County $18,150 annually for five years for the County’s prospective loss of alcoholic beverage control profits and sales and use taxes attributable to the annexed area. The Town has appealed, assigning error to this financial award to the County. Assigning cross-error, the County challenges the trial court’s finding that necessity and expediency justified granting annexation. The County…