Legal Opinion
Cattell v. Jefferson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 29, 1931No. 5162PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HITZ, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from an order in equity of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing an amended bill for specific performance of a contract for the sale of lands in the city of Washington.
The contract was dated December 25, 1915; the amended bill was filed November 17, 1929; the motion to dismiss it, November 22, 1929; and the order dismissing it, after hearing, December 4, 1929, whereby á cause requiring fourteen years to get into court remained there two weeks.
The plaintiff below electing no further amendment, appealed to this court, bringing a…
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