District of Columbia v. Washington & Georgetown Railroad

These cases have been argued here in the first instance, and the interesting questions involved have been exhaustively discussed by counsel.

In the first case the District of Columbia claims from the Washington & Georgetown Company $20,049.66, and in the second, the sum of $153,216.15 from the Metropolitan Company.

The pleadings are .alike in essentials, and we shall consider those in the latter case, which we find printed in the record.

*363The declaration avers the incorporation of the plaintiff and defendant corporations; that the District Government is intrusted by law with ample powers to take…