PATON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2955.

180 A.2d 844 (1962)

James F. PATON and Margaret S. Paton, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a municipal corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Paton, for appellants.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corporation Counsel, with whom Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and MYERS, Associate Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal by a husband and wife, owners of real property in the District of Columbia, from dismissal of their complaint to cancel a special assessment by the appellee municipality for certain paving improvements to the sidewalks and an alley adjacent to their property.1

We think that the case was properly dismissed, but not on the grounds apparently adopted by the trial court.2...

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