City of Richmond v. Davis

The appellee sues as a taxpayer and citizen of the city of Richmond, and asks that the city officers he enjoined from erecting buildings on land which it claims to have acquired by a lease. The theory upon which the complaint proceeds is, that the city can acquire no rights in the land on which its officers propose to erect the buildings. The nature of the claim of those from whom the title to the land is devised is set forth, and from the allegations of the complaint upon this subject we gather these facts: Ithamar War*451ner owned the land in 1835, and in that year died testate; in his will he…