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BD. OF DIRECTORS, WCOA v. BD. OF TRUSTEES

No. 00-CV-1494.

798 A.2d 1068 (2002)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WASHINGTON CITY ORPHAN ASYLUM, Appellant, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE WASHINGTON CITY ORPHAN ASYLUM, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 23, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey A. Liesemer, with whom Robert J. Katerberg, Eric A. Rubel, and Robert J. Wagman, Jr., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellant.

J. Alan Galbraith, with whom M. Elaine Horn was on the brief, for appellee.

Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, Lutz Alexander Prager, Assistant Deputy Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, filed a brief for amicus curiae, the District of Columbia.

Before STEADMAN and WASHINGTON, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

BELSON, Senior Judge:

I.

This case presented the trial court with the difficult task of construing an 1828 Act of Congress that is far from clear. The statute incorporated a board of five trustees to constitute a corporation known as the Washington City Orphan Asylum, and assigned different authority and responsibilities to that board, appellee here, and to a second board, a board of directors and managers, our appellant. After working in apparent harmony...

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