Legal and Law
Information about legal issues and law in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1902-08-14, Richmond Dispatch; man released from jail (for not paying his wife $4,000 in alimony) on the basis of his being a Libby Prison tunnel escapee
1902-08-14, Richmond Times; former Libby Prison tunneler is released from jail, charge with failure to pay alimony, based on the fact that he suffered in Libby
1902-09-05, Richmond Dispatch; Tredegar and Armory lot in Shockoe Cemetery is not being used (gives precise area) and city threatens to seize it back.
1907-01-30, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar Iron Works buys 400 feet on the east end of its property; City buys the New Fair Grounds Property (former Camp Lee)
1910-02-12, Richmond Times-Dispatch; US Circuit Court heard case of Tredegar versus the Seaboard Air Line Railway
1911-08-07, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City Council planning a “white school to take the place of old Bellevue, to be erected on the Van Lew property” as soon as legalities can be ironed out
1911-08-17, Richmond Times-Dispatch; city condemns and acquires the Van Lew property – paid $25,000 to the owners
1922-07-09, Richmond Times-Dispatch; recollection of Richmond in the 1870s. Chimborazo buildings still present, details on people, industry, newspapers, churches and politics
1923-08-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; two men arrested for stealing copper from Tredegar Iron Works
1923-08-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; two men sent to grand jury for stealing five barrels of copper and brass

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