1776 K Street Associates

Plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration or rehearing of the opinion filed July 18, 1979 is hereby denied. To explain why they paid for something they already owned, plaintiffs deny they knew their own title was good. This is different from the ordinary purchaser’s claim of ignorance of a defect in a seller’s title. That portion of the opinion which states that plaintiffs had notice of a possible claim the United States did not own the alleys, referring to existing case law, ante at 260-61, 602 F. 2d 354, 356-57, is not to be read as construing the local recording statutes of the District of…