DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. REILLY

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. William W. Pavis and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, and Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. James T. Reilly, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Messrs. F. J. Fitzgerald, Chief Attorney, Veterans Administration, and Edward E. Odom, Jr., Asst. Chief Attorney, Veterans Administration, Bethesda, Md., filed a memorandum on behalf of Mr. H. V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans Administration, as amicus curiæ, urging affirmance.

Messrs. William F. Hickey and Francis W. Stover, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States as amicus curiæ, urging affirmance.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and BASTIAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.