McMAHON v. CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH

Record No. 781028.

267 S.E.2d 130 (1980)

B. F. McMAHON et al. v. CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Lipkin, Norfolk (Edward R. Baird, Jr., Goldblatt, Lipkin, Cohen, Anderson & Jenkins, Norfolk, on brief), for appellants.

Richard H. Matthews, Asst. City Atty. (J. Dale Bimson, City Atty., Arthur Bergman, Asst. City Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON and THOMPSON, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

This appeal presents the question whether a city may by ordinance require landowners who possess adequate supplies of potable water provided by their privately owned wells to connect with the municipal water supply system when the ordinance does not require use of the city water.

In the trial court, the Committee to Save Our Wells, an unincorporated association, and more than 200 individual landowners,1 including...

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