Bell v. Farmville & Powhatan Railroad
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Petersburg, rendered on the 13th day of February, 1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Petersburg, rendered on the 13th day of February, 1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants. The record certified to this court by the clerk of the Circuit Court of the city of Petersburg contains the following certificates of the clerk of that court: “Beit remembered that heretofore, to-wit: in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court for the county of Powhatan on the 2nd day of January, 1891, cameWm. M. Flanagan and Robt. Bell, by counsel, and filed their bill of…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first assignment of error in this case is that the Circuit Court of the city of Petersburg, which entered the decree appealed from, had no jurisdiction of the case. It appears from the record that the suit was brought in the Circuit Court of Powhatan county by the appellants, William M. Flanagan and Robert Bell, citizens and taxpayers of that county, for the benefit of themselves and other taxpayers, against the Farmvilie & Powhatan Railroad Company and the Board of Supervisors of that county, to enjoin the railroad company from asserting and exercising any rights under an afieged…
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