Supreme Court of Virginia January 15, 1925, Record No. 1244 (City of Portsmouth v. Virginia Railway & Power Co.)

Prentis, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Virginia Railway and Power Company filed its petition with the State Corporation Commission, praying for relief from the obligation imposed upon it by the franchise granted to it and its predecessors by the city of Portsmouth, requiring the company to pay the entire-cost of paving and repaving between the rails of its tracks, and for two feet