Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-09
EXCEPTIONS FILED
COMMISSIONERS oBJECT 10
AWARDS FOR oUTFALL SEWER
Dissatisfied With Report and Ask That
Jury Of Seven Appraisers
Be Appointed.

The Commissioners Of the District Of Co
| lumbia, through Attorneys A. b. Duvall
and A. Leftwich Sinclair, today fled objec-
tions and exceptions in the Supreme Court
| Of the District of Columbia to the report
and award Of Messrs. Thomas w. Smith,
| Joseph B. Bailey and John F. Cook. who
| were appointed by the court in April last to
| appraise the value Of the land and rights of
| way needed by the District for an "outfall
| sewer" The appraisers returned their re-
port to the court July 81. and after re-
| ferring copy Of 1t to the superintendent
| Of sewers and other District officials, the
| District Commissioners directed the corpor-
| alton counsel to prepare and file exceptions
| to the report and request the court to direct
the summoning of a jury of seven citizens
| to reappraise the property to be taken for
| the "outfau sewer"
In the paper filed with Clerk John r..
| Young today the District Commissioners
| assert that the report and award is con-
| trary to the evidence submitted to the APP
| praisers, and that 1.-The dana ges awarded
In and by the said report to Alfred T.
Grimes and George ]. Seufferle, respective
| ly, are grossly excessive, exorbitant. and
unreasonable"
Wherefore" say the Commissioners,
these exceptants are dissatisfied with the
said report and award of the said apprais-
| ers, and pray this honorable court to vacate
and set the same aside and to direct the
United States marshal for the District of
Columbia to summon jury of seven disin-
| terested men, not related to any one inter-
ested. to appraise the value of the land and
rights OF way to be condemned, pursuant to
the terms and provisions of section 4S7 Of
the code of law for the District Of Column
bia'
Grounds for Objection.
1t Is understood that the District Com
| missioners' chief objection is to the awards
made by the appraisers to Mr.. Grimes and
to Mr.. Seunerle. The amount Of Mr..
Grimes award is S1.9475O, and that of Mr..
Seufferle is S1O,939.S0. These amounts were
awarded by the appraisers as damages
arising on account of the depositing upon
their land, by the action force and flow
or the tides and waters Of the Potomac
river OF the sewage which will pass
through the proposed outfall sewer and be
emptied into the channel of the river. The
awards mentioned do not include the value
of the land belonging to these owners
which is to be condemned for the sewer.
The Commissioners take the position that
no damage whatever will result to property
owners from the emptying OF the sewage
into the river in the manner proposed and
this Is the view of Mr.. D. E. McComb, the
superintendent of sewers, who is regarded
as an expert on such matters
MI. McComb's Report.
In his report to the District Commission
ers on the matter Mr.. McComb said in
part considering the arrangements made
at the sewerage pumping station for screen
ing the sewage before 1t reaches the pumps,
its discharge into deep water and the ample
volume of river water to effectively dilute
the sewage, 1t is believed that there will
be no sewage deposit upon the lands re-
ferred to-"
Attorney Sinclair has notified the prop
erty owners that he will call up the ex-
ceptions and objections mentioned before
Justice Barnard Friday next at 10 o'clock
am. and ask for the summonng of jury
of seven.