District of Columbia v. Burgdorf
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the District of Columbia from a judgment entered on the return of a writ of certiorari quashing and vacating certain proceedings taken for the purpose of assessing a water main tax. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
This appeal is from a judgment of the court below rendered on the return of a writ of certiorari, whereby certain proceedings taken for the purpose of assessing a water main tax were quashed and vacated, upon the allegation of illegality in the assessment of such tax.
*471The writ of certiorari, when issued in a case like the present, is somewhat in the nature of a writ of error; though it is not a writ of right, but rests in the discretion of the court applied to for its issuance. Yet, after the writ has been granted, and the record certified in obedience to it, the questions arising upon that…
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