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WASHINGTON AMER. L. BASE BALL CL. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 18992.

349 F.2d 179 (1965)

WASHINGTON AMERICAN LEAGUE BASE BALL CLUB, INC., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John E. Powell, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Arthur P. Drury, John M. Lynham and Henry H. Paige, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Henry E. Wixon, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Peter H. Wolf, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for respondent.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, BASTIAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

This petition to review a decision of the District of Columbia Tax Court evokes a lingering echo of what was, from 1905 to 1960, one of the District's most distinctive institutions in its capacity to elevate and to depress, in swift alternation, the spirits of the community. It was the eventual ending, in the latter year, of this ambivalent and highly volatile relationship that gives rise to the issues before us.

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