Strong v. District of Columbia

We have examined with care the numerous questions presented, and desire to express our obligations to the distinguished counsel engaged on both sides for the assistance they have afforded the court by their arguments. These questions will be noticed in order.

The first is the motion for a new trial.

The second, filed on the same day, is a motion in arrest of judgment upon the ground of alleged error in the admissions before the jury of evidence of services rendered by the plaintiff'for the District of Columbia, in the underpinning of various private houses in the city of Georgetown. Those two…