Carroll v. District of CoLumbia
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts found by the court: I. The petitioners herein embrace all the devisees under the will of the late Daniel Carroll of Duddington, and the other parties named as petitioners embrace all the other parties in interest under said will as heirs or assigns. And the entire estate in the real property herein described, to wit, square No. 736, in the city of Washington, belong to the parties named as claimants. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts found by the court: I. The petitioners herein embrace all the devisees under the will of the late Daniel Carroll of Duddington, and the other parties named as petitioners embrace all the other parties in interest under said will as heirs or assigns. And the entire estate in the real property herein described, to wit, square No. 736, in the city of Washington, belong to the parties named as claimants. II. By reason of the change of grade and the regrading of the streets around the aforesaid square numbered 736, in the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
This suit is instituted against the District of Columbia under the provisions of the statute approved on the 22d of March, *107A. D. 1884, entitled “An aet for the relief of the devisees of the late Daniel Carroll.” The first section of said act reads as follows:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the devisees under the will of the late Daniel Carroll of Duddington, deceased, their heirs, or assigns may prosecute a suit in the Court of Claims, according to the rules of practice and proceedings in said court, against…
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