The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-10
ASHLAND TRESTLE
WILL STAY ON LOT
Owner Did Not Like Suggestion
That He Remove 1t
Himself.
PAY BIG TAX ON FERRIES
City Must Refund Tax on Chooses
in Action-Appeals Are
Refused.
PAY BIG TAX ON FERRIES

In view of previous suit. in which
his fec simple was established. and
in which he was awarded damages.
Peter b. Hatcher can hope for no fur
ther relief. 1t seems. from the pres
cnce on his property of the trcstle of
the Richmond and Chesapeake Bay
Railway. The Supreme Court yester-
DAY refused to allow an appeal from
a Judgment of the Chancery Court of
Richmond, which decided against
The, trestle stands In part on a lot
owned by Hatcher on the south side
OF Leigh Street in this city. The own
eJectment in which It was finally de-
ctdcd that he was the fee simple own
or OF the lot. and he was given $3.50
damages for knocking off plaster and
Then he sued to have the trcstle
removed or to make the company pay
FOR the ground occupied. The Chan
Scry Court. which is now sustained.
held that he should have claimed his
iuli damages in the first action, and
that II WAS presumed that he got
Them. In his petition he sets forth
that a suggestion that he remove the
trcstie himself was but adding Insult
to injury.
Ferries Must Ray Tax.
The Ferries Company, of Norfolk.
received hard blow in the Supreme
an. appeal from Judgment of the
Police Justice fning it $50 for failure
TO pay license tax of $4,000 year
imposed by the city for the privilege
OF receiving passengers on the Nor
tolk side for delivery to Portsmouth,
This heavy tax was placed by the
CITY Council on the lessees OF the fer
ries, which have been owned by the
county. and city for 200 years 1t was
Claimed in the petition for appeal that
the company has no property in Nor
iolk, but is located In Portsmouth. and
that the attempted tax, which 1t must
now pay. intcrfered with coastwise
traffic and was in violation of the Con-
stitutions of the United States and of
Virginia.
STANDARD OIL Wins.
The Commonwealth was refused an
appeal in its suit against the Standard
OH Company. from the Circuit Court of
Taewell county. The company was in
dicted for peddling oil without a Ii
censc as peddler. the court sustaining
demurrer, from which the State ap-
pealed
vanced that, being a dealer in fuel, the
concern was not liable for such a tan
The Commonwealth claimed that II
was Impossible to tell whether or not
Tho city of Richmond loses in its
appeal from the Law and Equity
Court, by which 1T was directed TO re-
fund S51S.a1 of taxes collected on
enters executor against the Farm
Vile and Powhatan Railroad. In 1905
suit was brought by the city to col
lect its tax on the sum of s36.956.44
to the credit of the court In the cause
for tho year 1907. the estate winning.
II was then sought to recover a tax
paid on the same amount for 1906, be-
fore 1t was thought to contest pay
ment.
The city in its petition contended
that tho Chancery Court was without
jurisdiction to correct an erroneous
assessment on municipal taxes but il
loses and must refund the money.
Other Decisiopr.
Some OF the heirs of Henry Dubois
Van WICK were refused an appeal
beneficiary under the will. lie was
to have $4,000 after certain other mat
tiers were settled and he was given
interest on this amount for nearly
eight years. 1t was claimed by the
others that tho interest should not
start until the estate was settled up
Preston Rice was also refused an
appeal in his suit TO establish an
equity in house which lie built on
lot which did not belong entirely to
parties arc colorcd, and the property
is on tho outskirts of Harrsonburg.
Writs OF error or appeals were also
refused In the case of the Camp
Manufacturing Company VS.. w. NJ.
Seward from Brunswick county, in
volvinS the cjcctmcnt from 1892 un-
divided interest in AL acres of land:
in that of 7. T.. Ro5inctte and C.. r.
Roller VS.. ]. w. Robinette. from Scott
county. involving the ownership of 40
acres. and in that Of c. w. Lewis vs.
II. j. Wolfe. from Bristol. where actual
service was pleaded successfully
against a $500 claim.