CALVIN-HUMPHREY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 8306.

340 A.2d 795 (1975)

CALVIN-HUMPHREY et al., Appellees-Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, et al., Appellees-Respondents, In Re Motion of Clarzell Green et al., Appellants-Proposed Intervenors.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 23, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert Hahn, Jr., Washington D. C. with whom John R. Hailman, Washington D. C. was on the brief, for appellants.

Kenneth A. Pels, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for appellee District of Columbia. C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, Louis P. Robbins, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Henry E. Wixon, and Richard L. Aguglia, Asst. Corp. Counsels, Washington D. C. were on the brief, for appellee District of Columbia.

Harold Gordon, Washington D. C., with whom William T. Hannan, Washington D. C. was on the brief, for appellee Calvin-Humphrey Corp.

Walter H. Fleischer and Herbert Adelman, Washington D. C. entered an appearance for appellee River Park Mutual Homes, Inc.

Before KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.


KERN, Associate Judge:

The District of Columbia in imposing a tax upon realty within the city has followed for a number of years the practice of assessing commercial property at a different (and greater) percentage of market value than other real property.1 Calvin-Humphrey Corporation (hereafter Calvin-Humphrey) and several other corporations brought suit on behalf of all city commercial property owners against the District and...

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