HILL & SANDERS, INC. v. KENEIPP

No. 1541.

109 A.2d 141 (1954)

HILL & SANDERS, Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. George E. KENEIPP, Director of Vehicles and Traffic, and the District of Columbia, a municipal corporation, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 10, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis H. Mann, Washington, D. C., with whom Guy, Mann & Guy, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Harry L. Walker, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., and Henry Breckenridge Vance, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

The case before us involves the right of a garage keeper to claim a lien for storage against an automobile which an owner had first entrusted to him for repairs and then abandoned. It also involves another question, new in this jurisdiction, as to the extent of the authority of the District of Columbia Government through its Director of Vehicles and Traffic to approve or disapprove garage keepers' liens and the subject matter thereof.

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