COMPTON, Justice.
The question we confront in this declaratory judgment proceeding is whether the trial court erred in declaring a portion of Virginia's division fence law unconstitutional special legislation, as applied to a particular group of landowners.
Initially, we will review the development of the law relating to division fences. At common law, every landowner's boundary line was a lawful fence, and when cattle trespassed upon another's land the cattle...
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