Allfirst Trust co. v. County of Loudoun

OPINION BY Senior Justice CHARLES S. RUSSELL.

This is an appeal from the final order of a special three-judge annexation court dismissing a landowner-initiated annexation proceeding then pending before the Commission on Local Government (COLG). The sole question is whether the court correctly decided that the landowners' notice of intent to petition for annexation, filed with the COLG, failed to meet the statutory requirements for the initiation of such a proceeding.

BACKGROUND

In 1979, the General Assembly enacted a thorough reform of the statutory framework governing annexation proceedings,…