COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD v. TOWN & COUNTRY APTS. & T.


203 S.E.2d 117 (1974)

214 Va. 587

COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD v. TOWN & COUNTRY APARTMENTS & TOWNHOUSES, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 4, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick T. Gray; Richmond, Morris E. Mason, Asst. Commonwealth's Atty. for Chesterfield County (Oliver D. Rudy, Commonwealth's Atty. for Chesterfield County, Williams, Mullen & Christian, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

A. J. FitzPatrick, Asst. City Atty. for City of Richmond, Harry L. Thompson, Richmond (William S. Smithers, Jr., Minor, Thompson, Savage, Smithers & Benedetti, Richmond, on brief), for appellees.

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


CARRICO, Justice.

Code § 15.1-554 provides as follows:

"No action shall be maintained by any person against a county upon any claim or demand until such person shall have first presented his claim to the board of supervisors of such county for allowance."

The determinative question in this case is whether failure to comply with the foregoing Code section bars the maintenance against a county of a declaratory judgment proceeding which basically...

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