District of Columbia v. John B. Wentworth, First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C. v. John B. Wentworth and Hazel H. Wentworth

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

The question presented on these appeals is the validity of certain administrative proceedings carried on pursuant to 5 D.C.Code §§ 501, 502 and 503 (1951), relating to unsafe structures, and culminating in an assessment of the cost of repair to such a structure made by the District of Columbia, 1 against the owners of the land on which it is located.

John B. Wentworth and Hazel H. Wentworth 2 are the owners of a building known as 1632 0 Street, N. W., situated on a tract of land in the District described as lot 803, square 181. Such building is 39 feet, 7 inches wide,…