Brown v. District of Columbia

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing the petition of the appellant, Talmadge E. Brown, who sued in that court to recover a judgment against the District of Columbia, appellee, for $200,000, in satisfaction of his claim for damages for breach of an alleged contract, and for work and labor performed and materials furnished in the paving of certain streets in the cities of "Washington and Georgetown.

The petition was filed November 16, 1880, and contains four counts, the first of which is in substance as follows: That from 1869 to 1874, inclusive, petitioner,…