Warwick County v. City of Newport News
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Warwick county in an annexation proceeding. Judgment for the petitioners. Defendants assign error.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Warwick county in an annexation proceeding. Judgment for the petitioners. Defendants assign error. The annexation ordinances and the order appealed from are as follows: An ordinance to extend the corporate limits of the City of Newport News in pursuance of the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 10, 1904, and known as section 1014-a, Virginia Code, 1904. Be it ordained by the council of the city of Newport News: 1. That the city of Newport News hereby declares that it desires to annex in pursuance of an act of…
1Opinion of the Court
Cardwell, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court..
This is a proceeding upon petition under the statute, filed by the city of Newport News in the Circuit Court of Warwick county, for the annexation to the city of certain territory belonging to the county of Warwick, described in an ordinance adopted by the council of the city, and pursuant to the provisions of the statute in such cases made and provided, the Governor of the State designated the Honorable Thomas W. Harrison, judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit, to hear the case and to determine the issues therein.
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