BECKETT v. BD. OF SUP'RS OF ACCOMACK CTY.

Record No. 841153.

363 S.E.2d 918 (1988)

C. Lavinia BECKETT, et al. v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ACCOMACK COUNTY, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise W. Bland, Cape Charles, for appellants.

Anthony F. Troy (John K. Burke, Jr., Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, on brief), for appellee C.M. Williams, Jr.

No briefs or arguments for appellees Bd. of Sup'rs of Accomack County, Tyler and Lewis, and Mapp and Mapp.

Present: All the Justices.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to invalidate a County Board of Supervisors' allowance of attorneys' fees to law firms that represented the County's administrator in the defense of criminal charges.

Six freeholders of Accomack County1 instituted this suit pursuant to Code § 15.1-5502 to challenge a decision of the Accomack...

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