Legal Opinion
In re United States Commission to Appraise Washington Market Co.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 5, 1924No. 685PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from an award of a commission appointed to appraise and fix the valuation of the buildings and improvements belonging to the Washington Market Company.
Reservation No. 7, where the market under consideration is now situated, was set aside as a market site on the plan of the original city as approved by Gen. Washington. In October, 1802, the city council passed an act establishing a market thereon, and from that time to the present the site has been used for market purposes.
By Act of Congress of May 20, 1870 (16 Stat. 124), the Washington Market…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Willcox v. Consolidated Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- City of Omaha v. Omaha Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910
- National Waterworks Co. v. Kansas CityCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1894
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Atlantic Refining Co. v. Director of Public WorksSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1967
- Futrovsky v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1933
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