U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1916

District of Columbia v. Washington Gaslight Co.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Decided April 10, 1916 · Covington

45 App. D.C. 78; 1916 U.S. App. LEXIS 2655

Counsel

Mr. Conrad H. Syme, Corporation Counsel, and Mr. Francis H. Stephens, Assistant, for the appellant., Mr. Benj. S. Minor, Mr. J. J. Darlington, and Mr. Colley W. Bell for the appellee.

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Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. District of Columbia (D.C. Cir. 1943)

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Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chief Justice Covington

of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who sat with this Court in the hearing and determination of the appeal in the place of Mr. Justice Van Orsdel, delivered the opinion of the Court:

The question presented by the record is precisely the same as in the case of District of Columbia v. Georgetown Gaslight Co. ante, 63, the preceding case, and for the reasons assigned in that case the judgment is affirmed, with costs above and below.

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