Case ID: app-dc_9/html/0260-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Alvey", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BAUMAN v. ROSS. ROSS v. BAUMAN.
    District of Columbia v. Armes, 8 App. D. 0.393, applied and followed.
    
    Nos. 626 and 627.
    Submitted September 29, 1896,
    Decided September 29, 1896.
    Hearing on an appeal from a judgment in condemnation proceedings instituted under the Act of Congress of March 2, 1893 (27 Stat. 332), providing for a permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      Mr. Nathaniel Wilson, Mr. Chapin Brown and Mr. A. H. O’Connor for Bauman.
    
      Mr. S. T. Thomas, Attorney for the District of Columbia; Mr. A. B. Duvall, Assistant Attorney, and Mr. A. S. Worthington and Mr. Samuel Maddox, special counsel, for Ross.
   Mr. Chief Justice Alvey

delivered the opinion of the Court:

In the case of the District of Columbia, appellant, against Charles H. Armes and others, No. 552, January Term, 1896, (8 App. D. C. 393,) this court had occasion to consider the questions of law which are now here raised by the appeal and cross-appeal from the decree of the court below set forth in the record. On the authority of that case, the decree herein of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a District Court of the United States for said District, must be affirmed, with costs; and it is so ordered.