Supreme Court of Virginia April 22, 1875 (Blackford v. Hurst)

Anderson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

By the 4th section of the act amending the charter of Lynchburg, passed December 8,1866 (Acts 1866-’7, p. 460), jurisdiction is given to the court of Hustings for the said city, “not only within the corporate limits of said city, but also for the space of one mile without and around said city.” On the 81st of July 1869, Thomas L. Johnson, S. W.