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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. WENTWORTH

Nos. 15739, 15831.

288 F.2d 421 (1961)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., Appellants, v. John B. WENTWORTH et al., Appellees. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF The CITY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., Appellant, v. John B. WENTWORTH and Hazel H. Wentworth, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 2, 1961.

Petition for Rehearing Denied April 11, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John R. Hess, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert P. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellants in No. 15,739.

Mr. Alvin O. West, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Warren E. Miller, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant in No. 15,831.

Mr. Alexander Boskoff, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, and FAHY and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

The question presented on these appeals is the validity of certain administrative proceedings carried on pursuant to 5 D.C.Code §§ 501, 502 and 503 (1951), relating to unsafe structures, and culminating in an assessment of the cost of repair to such a structure made by the District of Columbia,1 against the owners of the land on which it is located.

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