District of Columbia v. Camden Iron Works
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE COUET OF APPEALS OK THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was an action of covenant brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the Camden Iron Works, a corporation created under the laws of the State of New Jersey, against the District of Columbia, to recover the price of .certain iron pipe manufactured for and delivered to defendant by plaintiff in pursuance of a contract under seal.
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EEEOE TO THE COUET OF APPEALS OK THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was an action of covenant brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the Camden Iron Works, a corporation created under the laws of the State of New Jersey, against the District of Columbia, to recover the price of .certain iron pipe manufactured for and delivered to defendant by plaintiff in pursuance of a contract under seal. Several pleas were interposed, and among them the plea of non est fac-tum, and the plea of the statute of limitations of three years. To the latter plea a demurrer was sustained, and issue…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
The first section of the act “ to provide a government for the District of Columbia,” approved February 21, 1871, 16 Stat. 419, c. 62, provided : “ That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created into a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes, and may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal, and exercise all other powers of a municipal corporation not…
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