Richmond Railway & Electric Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond rendered ETovember 25, 1898, on an application for a mandamus wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond rendered ETovember 25, 1898, on an application for a mandamus wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The Richmond Railway and Electric Company (plaintiff in error) was incorporated by an Act of Assembly approved February 20, 1890, (Acts 1889-90 p. 499). Under its charter it was authorized to acquire existing street railways in the city of Richmond, and to construct and operate its own lines in the city of Richmond and the county of Henrico. Under the power thus conferred…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The court is of opinion that the Oircuit Oourt of the city of Bichmond had jurisdiction to hear and determine the right of the defendant in error to the writ of mandamus prayed for in this case. If it was the duty of the plaintiff in error to transfer the defendant in error, as claimed in the petition for mandamus, the alleged violation of that duty occurred in the city of Biehmond, within the jurisdiction of its Oircuit Oourt, and it was a matter of no importance that the obligation to perform said duty, appeared from a record of the Oounty Oourt of Henrico county. Section 3218 of the Code,…
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