CITY OF ALEXANDRIA v. RICHMOND, F. & P. R. CO.

Record Nos. 791447, 791580.

288 S.E.2d 457 (1982)

CITY OF ALEXANDRIA v. RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY. RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTY OF HENRICO.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Alexander, Jr., Alexandria (Urchie B. Ellis, Richmond, Boothe, Prichard & Dudley, Alexandria, on briefs), for Richmond F. & P. R. Co.

Joseph P. Rapisarda, Jr., Acting County Atty., for appellee Henrico County.

State Corporation Commission (Lewis S. Minter, Richmond, on brief), amicus curiae, for appellee.

Nolan B. Dawkins, Asst. City Atty., for appellant City of Alexandria.

Before CARRICO, C. J., COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.


POFF, Justice.

Does a circuit court have jurisdiction to entertain an application filed under Code § 58-1145 by a public service corporation to correct a local real estate tax levy on the ground the underlying evaluation made by the State Corporation Commission (SCC) was erroneous? Two circuit courts have entered diverse judgments on that question, and, in combined appeals, we are asked to resolve the conflict.

In Virginia, real estate is "segregated...

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