Bertha Zinc Co. v. Board of Supervisors of Pulaski County
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pulaski county, rendered April 3d, 1891, in the cause wherein the Bertha Zinc Company and others, citizens and tax-payers of the town of Pulaski, in said county, in behalf of themselves and other tax-payers of said town, were complainants, and the board of supervisors of said county was defendant. Decree being adverse to complainants, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The bill in this case was tiled by the Bertha Zinc Company, L. S. Calfee, M. H. Calfee, Thomas Jones, James W. Lyons, J. *372E. Moore, and Id. M. Brown, citizens and tax-payers of the town of Pulaski, Pulaski county, Virginia, in behalf of themselves and the other tax-payers of the said town who are similarly aggrieved, setting forth that, in the month of May, 1890, the board of supervisors of said county made an assessment and levy of fifteen cents on the $100 of property — on the $100 in value of all the real estate and personal property of all the taxpayers of said town — for road purposes;…
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