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J.W. PERRY CO. v. NORFOLK

Nos. 103, 104.

220 U.S. 472 (1911)

31 S.Ct. 465

55 L.Ed. 548

J.W. PERRY COMPANY v. CITY OF NORFOLK. H. WHITE v. CITY OF NORFOLK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Tazewell Taylor and Mr. Walter H. Taylor, with whom Mr. William Leigh Williams was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Nathaniel T. Green for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

In 1792, at a time when it had no right to tax, the municipality of Norfolk, Virginia, leased to Lee and others several lots of land for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, the lessees and their assigns to pay the annual rent and "the public taxes which shall become due on said land." Subsequently the city was given the power of...

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