Nuckols v. Moore

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a petition for declaratory judgment and mandamus in a land use controversy. The sole question before us is whether the trial court erred in applying the procedural requirements of Code §§ 15.1-550 through 554, which concern the presentation of claims to the board of supervisors as a prerequisite to maintaining an action against a county “upon any claim or demand.”

Lunsford T. Nuckols, Jr., and others1 (collectively, the owners) were owners of tracts of land adjacent to a runway at Hummel Field, an airport owned by Middlesex County. In 1983, the owners…