ARCHBOLD v. McLAUGHLIN

Civ. A. No. 2021-59.

181 F.Supp. 175 (1960)

Anne ARCHBOLD, Plaintiff, Charles C. Glover, Jr., Intervenor Plaintiff, v. Robert E. McLAUGHLIN, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

January 27, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh H. Obear, Edmund D. Campbell, Ronald E. Madsen, Douglas, Obear & Campbell, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Anne Archbold.

Hugh H. Obear, Edmund D. Campbell and Charles C. Glover III, Washington, D. C., for Charles C. Glover, Jr., intervening plaintiff.

Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, George C. Updegraff, John A. Earnest, and George H. Clark, Asst. Corp. Counsel, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., for defendant Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward P. Troxell, Principal Asst. U. S. Atty., John F. Doyle, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Ellen Lee Park, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendants Fred A. Seaton and Conrad L. Wirth.

Harold Leventhal, Washington, D. C., for proposed intervenors, Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, Inc., Committee of 100 on the Federal City, Cecil J. Wilkinson and Nell Wilkinson, his wife, and Harold Leventhal and Kathryn K. Leventhal, his wife, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, including West Glover-Archbold Citizens Association.

Smith W. Brookhart, Brookhart, Becker & Dorsey, Washington, D. C., for the National Parks Assn., a District of Columbia Corp., amici curiae.


MATTHEWS, District Judge.

Five motions are before the court. Before discussing them, the nature of this action will be briefly stated. Plaintiff, Anne Archbold, seeks to enjoin the construction of a multiple lane highway upon land she dedicated to the United States for use as a public park and to obtain a declaratory judgment in respect of that land. Charles C. Glover, Jr., as an intervenor plaintiff seeks similar relief as to adjoining land which was dedicated to...

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