TABLE OF STATUTES CITED IN OPINIONS. (A.) STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. PAGE PAGE 5 1789, Sept. 4, 1 Stat. 76, c. 20... 143 1801, Feb. 27, 2 Stat. 103, c. 15... 4 1801, March 3, 2 Stat. 115, c. 25.. 1802, May 3, 2 Stat. 195, c. 53... 1812, July 1, 2 Stat. 771, c. 117.. 1820, May 15, 3 Stat. 583, c. 104, 1846, July 30, 9 Stat. 47.....457, 458 1848, May 17, 9 Stat. 223, c. 42.. 1850, Sept. 9, 9 Stat. 453, c. 51, 636, 638 1853, March 2, 10 Stat. 175, c. 90, 639 1861, Feb. 28, 12 Stat. 174, c. 59, 639 1861, March 2, 12 Stat. 190, c. 68, 160, 457, 458, 618, 619, 620, 660 1861, March 2, 12 Stat. 241, c. 86, 639 1861, Aug. 6, 12 Stat. 320, c. 62.. 5 1862, July 1, 12 Stat. 489, c. 120, 365 1862, July 14, 12 Stat. 551, c. 163, 1868, July 25, 15 Stat. 180, c. 235, 639 1870, July 14, 16 Stat. 264, c. 255, 7 4 253, 463 4 5 5 1871, Feb. 21, 16 Stat. 419, c. 62, 6, 7 1872, June 1, 17 Stat. 197, c. 255.. 490 1872, June 6, 17 Stat. 256, c. 315, 593 1874, April 7, 18 Stat. 27, c. 80, 218, 513, 515 1874, June 20, 18 Stat. 116, c. 337, 1875, Feb. 8, 18 Stat. 307, c. 36, 593, 621 1875, Feb. 18, 18 Stat. 316, c. 80, 144 1875, March 3, 18 Stat. 470, c. 137, 584, 590, 591, 601 1878, June 11, 20 Stat. 102, c. 180, 7 1882, July 12, 22 Stat. 162, c. 290, 145 1883, March 3, 22 Stat. 488, c. 121, 639 160, 457, 458, 462, 618, 621, 623 1863, Feb. 24, 12 Stat. 665, c. 56, 1863, March 3, 12 Stat. 799... 1863, March 3, 12 Stat. 811, c. 117, 1864, March 21, 13 Stat. 35..... 1864, May 26, 13 Stat. 88, c. 95.. 1864, June 3, 13 Stat. 99, c. 106, 143, 144 1864, June 30, 13 Stat. 202, c. 171, 160, 253, 619, 621, 623, 660 1864, June 30, 13 Stat. 251, c. 173, 593, 596, 597 25, 26, 158, 160, 254, 455, 458, 463, 492, 493, 494, 495, 499, 500, 615, 616, 617, 621, 5 639 360 639 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. No. 5. Argued November 22, 1888. - Decided October 21, 1889. The District of Columbia is a municipal corporation, having a right to sue and be sued, and is subject to the ordinary rules that govern the law of procedure between private persons. The Maryland statute of limitations of 1715, which is in force in the District of Columbia, embraces municipal corporations. The sovereign power of the District of Columbia is lodged in the government of the United States, and not in the corporation of the District. This court expresses no opinion upon the question whether, when the right of property in highways and public places is vested in a municipality, an assertion of that right against purprestures or public nuisances is subject to the law of limitations. An action by a municipal corporation to recover from a street railroad company the cost of maintaining pavements in a street, which the company is, by its charter, bound to maintain, is not an action upon the statute, but one in assumpsit. ASSUMPSIT. Verdict for the plaintiff, and judgment on the verdict. The defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion. Mr. Nathaniel Wilson and Mr. Walter D. Davidge for plain tiff in error. VOL. CXXXII-1 |