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3 Va. 63

Beveridge v. Lacey

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 25, 1824

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1824-11-25

This was a suit brought by Lacey, in the Winchester Chancery Court, to injoin and restrain Beveridge from digging or causing to be dug, the ground in one of the streets in the town of Middleburg, in Loudoun county.

Decided 1824-11-25

Judge Cabell,

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.*

¶2It is not the province of a Court of Equity, to correct abuses merely public. It interferes on the ground of private injury only. There is, in the present case, no such injury, either actually sustained, or justly apprehended.

¶3The decree is therefore reversed, and the bill dismissed.

¶4 Judges Brooke and Carr, absent.

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