Legal Opinion
Thornhill v. Atlantic Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 16, 1934No. 5967PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HITZ, Associate Justice.
The plaintiff in error was tenant in possession of a certain house in Washington when it was sold under a deed of trust from her landlord.
The defendant in error was purchaser at that sale, and forthwith filed against the tenant in the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia a summary proceedings for possession under section 225, title 18, D. C. Code, p. 171.
The tenant’s affidavit of defense setting up the necessity of a notice to quit preceding the suit was held insufficient, and from the judgment for possession which followed she sued out this writ of error.
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