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WESTMINSTER INVESTING CORP. v. G. C. MURPHY CO.

No. 23125.

434 F.2d 521 (1970)

WESTMINSTER INVESTING CORPORATION v. G. C. MURPHY COMPANY, Appellant, District of Columbia.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas N. Griggs, Pittsburgh, Pa., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Donald C. Bush, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Thomas M. O'Malley, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John R. Hess, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Hubert B. Pair, Acting Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee District of Columbia.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, Senior Circuit Judge, ROBB, Circuit Judge, and DAVIS, Judge, United States Court of Claims.

DAVIS, Judge:

Appellant G. C. Murphy Company held a lease on real estate at 3128-3130 14th Street, N.W., in the District of Columbia, owned by Westminster Investing Corporation. During the riots which followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in April 1968, these premises and property in them were destroyed. Westminster filed suit against Murphy after the latter denied liability for repairs under the lease. Murphy impleaded the District of Columbia, alleging...

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