Rudolph v. Peters
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by the complainants, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court, dismissing a bill for an injunction to prevent the continuance of an obstruction of an alleged public street.
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Hearing on an appeal by the complainants, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court, dismissing a bill for an injunction to prevent the continuance of an obstruction of an alleged public street. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, dismissing a bill for injunction, filed by Cuno H. Kudolph, John A. Johnston, and William Y. Judson, the commissioners of the District of Columbia, to prevent the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Anderson,
of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who sat with the Court in the hearing and determination of the appeal in place of Mr. Chief Justice Shepard, delivered the opinion of the Court:
The evidence in this case shows beyond all question that the defendant, William Peters, is and has heen in the exclusive and continuous possession of this disputed strip of land described in the bill ever since he purchased said 10 acres in June, 1884. But it is contended by the appellants that the defendant must be limited by the boundaries recited in his deed, and that said strip…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Seymour, Sabin & Co. v. CarliSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- Probst v. Trustees of the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian ChurchSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Brown v. LeeteU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nevada · 1880
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