DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. GREENWAY, INC.

No. 1440.

103 A.2d 872 (1954)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. GREENWAY, Inc.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 24, 1954.

Rehearing Denied April 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry L. Walker, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Milton D. Korman, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Harvey H. Holland, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom James E. Artis, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

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


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

The question for decision is whether the District of Columbia Commissioners acted in accordance with a governing statute in fixing annual apartment house license fees in 1947.

Greenway, Inc., owner of 72 small, garden-type, walk-up apartments sued the District of Columbia to recover fees at the rate of $15 per building which it had paid under protest. The trial court, in a written opinion, held that the Commissioners had not complied with...

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