Bull v. Read
Supreme Court of Virginia
Thomas W. Bull and sixteen others, white male inhabitants of the first magisterial district in the county of Accomack, in behalf of themselves and other inhabitants of said district, except the dants, applied to the judge of the Circuit court of that county for an injunction against the board of school commissioners of that magisterial district.
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Thomas W. Bull and sixteen others, white male inhabitants of the first magisterial district in the county of Accomack, in behalf of themselves and other inhabitants of said district, except the dants, applied to the judge of the Circuit court of that county for an injunction against the board of school commissioners of that magisterial district. In their bill they set out the provisions of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, passed the 31st of March 1853, entitled, “An act to establish the first magisterial district free school in the county of Accomack.” By the first section of this…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
The mode of suing in this case and the jurisdiction of the court have both been called in question but as I think upon insufficient grounds. The act in question is one necessarily affecting all the inhabitants of the district named who in respect of persons or property were liable to taxation under its provisions; and as they were many in number but had a common interest, it was allowable according to settled practice, for some to file a bill on behalf of themselves and the other inhabitants similarly situated seeking any relief to which they might all in common be justly entitled, although…
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