CITY OF SUFFOLK v. COUNTY OF NANSEMOND


181 S.E.2d 621 (1971)

212 Va. 1

CITY OF SUFFOLK v. COUNTY OF NANSEMOND.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Cogar, Richmond (M. Erskine Watkins, Suffolk, Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Robert C. Fitzgerald, Fairfax (Robert E. Gillette, Commonwealth's Atty. for Nansemond County, James N. Garrett, Portsmouth, on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The City of Suffolk brought this annexation proceeding pursuant to an ordinance that described the property proposed to be annexed by referring to monuments but without bearings and distances:

"Beginning at a point at the intersection of the present east corporate boundary of the City of Suffolk and the south right-of-way line of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company (formerly the Virginian); thence running in an easterly direction along the...

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