Commissioners of District of Columbia v. Shannon & Luchs Const. Co.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

The

commissioners of the District of Columbia filed petitions in the Supreme Court of the District for the condemnation of all of square 1307, and south of square 1311, for an athletie field for the Western High School. The proceedings were brought under section 483 of the District Code, which provides as follows: “Whenever land in the District is needed for the use of the United States, or by the commissioners of the District for sites of schoolhousqs, fire or police stations, or for a right of way for sewers, or for any other municipal use authorized by…