Fendall v. District of Columbia
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case : The following are the facts of this case as set forth by the court: I. The claimant is the duly appointed and qualified administrator or George W. Marley, deceased, late of the District of Columbia; and, as such, is the holder and owner of forty-eight unpaid sewer certificates issued by the board of publie works of the District of Columbia, under the act of the District legislature of June 26, 1873, in substantially the following form,…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case : The following are the facts of this case as set forth by the court: I. The claimant is the duly appointed and qualified administrator or George W. Marley, deceased, late of the District of Columbia; and, as such, is the holder and owner of forty-eight unpaid sewer certificates issued by the board of publie works of the District of Columbia, under the act of the District legislature of June 26, 1873, in substantially the following form, viz: D. 500. District oe Columbia. D 500. No. 15. WASHINGTON, July 1, 1873. This certifies that for work done under the…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This is an action against the District of Columbia, under the act of June 16, 1880, ch. 243, upon forty-eight sewer or sewerage certificates, with one hundred coupons attached or belonging to them, issued by the late board of public works.
The origin of the class of certificates of which those of the claimant form a part, and the legislative and Congressional action in relation to them are these:
By the Act February 21,1871 (16 Stat. L., 419, ch. 62), Congress created a government for the whole District of Columbia, to supersede the corporations of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and…
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