Case ID: dc_5/html/0508-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "(Cranch, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of Georgetown v. Samuel Chew.
    The Corporation of Georgetown lias power to rent fish wharves.
    Debt upon a bond for $2,050, conditioned to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $1,025 for rent of certain fish wharves belonging to the Corporation of Georgetown.
    After oyer of the condition the defendant demurred to the declaration.
    
      Mr. R. J. Brent, for the defendant,
    contended that the corporation had no power to rent fish wharves; no such power is given them by their charter ; and no corporation can exercise a power not expressly given or necessarily implied from some express power. Angelí & Ames on Corp. 145, 146.
   But the Court

(Cranch, C. J.,

not giving any opinion,) instantly overruled the demurrer without hearing Mr. Dunlop, for the plaintiffs.