COMMISSIONER OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. BENENSON

No. 8572.

329 A.2d 437 (1974)

COMMISSIONER OF the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, and Walter E. Washington, et al., Appellants, v. Charles B. BENENSON et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 10, 1974.

Rehearing and Rehearing en Banc Denied February 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. Robbins, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, Richard W. Barton and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsels, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

J. Hampton Baumgartner, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Bruce S. Mencher, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before KELLY, KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.


GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

The owners of the Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in this city (appellees) (sought an injunction in the trial court to compel the issuance of a permit authorizing the removal of all nonstructural elements of the hotel. The trial court in a memorandum opinion granting summary judgment in favor of the hotel owners ordered the issuance of a permit "to demolish the non-structural elements" of the hotel. We affirm.

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