Edwards v. Brownlow

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted December 6, 1920.

Decided February 7, 1921.)

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1921-02-07

<p>Appeal from the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia.</p> <p>Mandamus by W. Walton Edwards against Louis Brownlow and others. From a judgment refusing the writ, petitioner appeals.</p>

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Reversed and remanded, with directions to issue the writ · Decided 1921-02-07

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¶1Appeal from the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia.

¶2Mandamus by W. Walton Edwards against Louis Brownlow and others. From a judgment refusing the writ, petitioner appeals.

¶3Reversed and remanded, with directions to issue the writ.

¶4W. W. Edwards, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

¶5F. H. Stephens and R. L. Williams, both of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

¶6VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

¶7This is a companion appeal to No. 3450, this day decided. The application was for a permit to erect a building to be (used as a delicatessen, and was refused upon the same ground as in the Schwartz Case, - App. D. C. -, 270 Fed. 1019.

¶8For the reasons therein stated, the judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause is remanded, with directions to issue the writ as prayed for in the petition.

¶9Reversed and remanded.