Legal Opinion
Potomac Electric Power Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 25, 1936No. 6562PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
On December 28, 1934, the United States filed its petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seeking the condemnation of lot 805, square 144, on which was located substation 19 of the defendant, Potomac Electric Power Company. Defendant company answered, setting forth that established in substation No. 19 were electrical fixtures for the distribution of electric energy for heat, light, and power to many government buildings and to the general public in the vicinity of the substation; that certain of its property, used as an integral and essential…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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